consent
to permit, approve, or agree; comply or yield (often followed by to or an infinitive): He consented to the proposal. We asked her permission, and she consented.
Archaic. to agree in sentiment, opinion, etc.; be in harmony.
permission, approval, or agreement; sanction; acquiescence: He gave his consent to the marriage.
agreement in sentiment, opinion, a course of action, etc.: By common consent he was appointed official delegate.
Archaic. accord; concord; harmony.
Origin of consent
1synonym study For consent
Other words for consent
Other words from consent
- con·sent·er, noun
- con·sent·ing·ly, adverb
- non·con·sent, noun
- non·con·sent·ing, adjective, noun
- pre·con·sent, noun, verb (used without object)
- re·con·sent, verb (used without object)
- un·con·sent·ing, adjective
Words that may be confused with consent
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How to use consent in a sentence
He said he plans to deploy weekly randomized testing, rather than monthly, and that children who did not have consent forms to be tested would not be permitted to return to class.
New York City reopening schools for special-education students and younger grades | Moriah Balingit | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostPrior to the 1970s, says Navin, government and medical elites could make sweeping health decisions with little or no consent from the people affected.
The other scenario is to use tag management to load Google Ad Manager if consent has been given, or the alternative ad server if consent hasn’t been given.
Publishers and ad tech vendors find Google’s new ‘Limited Ads’ feature to be, well, limited | Lara O'Reilly | October 2, 2020 | DigidayIndustry observers told Digiday that it’s highly unlikely, when presented with a consent wall, that users would cherry pick for which purposes they will and won’t consent to sharing their data — they usually choose to “reject all” or “accept all.”
Publishers and ad tech vendors find Google’s new ‘Limited Ads’ feature to be, well, limited | Lara O'Reilly | October 2, 2020 | DigidayThis is something that the privacy community has really learned the hard way, which is why laws like the GDPR don’t just rely on consent.
Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward | Karen Hao | September 4, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
British Dictionary definitions for consent
/ (kənˈsɛnt) /
to give assent or permission (to do something); agree; accede
(intr) obsolete to be in accord; agree in opinion, feelings, etc
acquiescence to or acceptance of something done or planned by another; permission
accordance or harmony in opinion; agreement (esp in the phrase with one consent)
age of consent the lowest age at which the law recognizes the right of a person to consent to sexual intercourse
Origin of consent
1Derived forms of consent
- consenter, noun
- consenting, adjective
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