Usually means: Agree or consent without protest.
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  1. acquiesce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acquiesce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquiesce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquiesce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquiesce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquiesce, acquiesce: Wordnik
  7. acquiesce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquiesce: Wiktionary
  9. acquiesce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquiesce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acquiesce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acquiesce: Dictionary.com
  13. acquiesce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. acquiesce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Acquiesce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Acquiesce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. acquiesce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. acquiesce: Rhymezone
  19. acquiesce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. acquiesce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. acquiesce: Free Dictionary
  22. acquiesce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. acquiesce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. acquiesce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. acquiesce: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquiesce: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquiesce: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
verb:  (intransitive) To concur upon conviction; to assent to; usually, to concur, not heartily but so far as to forbear opposition.

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