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tacit

/ˈtasɪt/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister

General adjective

Understood or implied without being stated.

There was a tacit agreement never to mention the incident again.

Similar: implicit, unspoken

Topic: GRE Verbal in General English

Business adjective

Understood or implied without being directly stated.

There was a tacit agreement among the regional heads not to undercut one another's pricing.

Similar: implicit, unspoken

Topic: Frameworks & analysis in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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