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tacit agreement
noun as in gentleman's agreement
noun as in gentlemen's agreement
Example Sentences
Inherently, any twist ending is a violation of our tacit agreement with a movie — we thought the film was playing straight with us, and then at the last moment, we discover we’ve been duped.
Michael Milshtein, a former official of COGAT, the office that coordinates Israeli governance over the West Bank said there was a form of tacit agreement between the two sides.
These 19th-century whalers collected the bulk of the carcass, but the orcas would eat the baleen whales’ tongue through the lower jaw, a tacit agreement known as the “law of the tongue,” Reeves says.
The tacit agreement also means that the major parties typically ensure both religions are represented on their presidential ticket.
If he wins, the presidency could remain with a Muslim rather than flipping, again upsetting the tacit agreement.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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