0 official agreement to or approval of an idea, plan, or request: --
2 agreement to an idea, plan, or request, esp. after serious consideration: --
3 official agreement to an idea, plan, or request: --
give your assent to sth Once the directors have given their assent to the proposal, work can start almost immediately.
with the assent of sb The government, with the assent of the two smaller opposition parties, pushed through the bill this week.
4 a document that states that someone is the new legal owner of the property of someone who has died: --
The transfer of a property to the beneficiary after someone has died is done by means of an assent.
If he assents, that is good enough for me.
I see that he assents to that general view.
A juvenile court can make that order if the parent assents.
I do not want it to be said that we could not answer his arguments, or that we assented to them.
After consideration, the promoters assented to the modifications being made.
I do not say they assented; they were consulted, as were the coal trade.
In the compromise which was reached the parties assented to the second vote being given in respect of the occupation of business premises.
I thought he assented to the suggestion that the words should be left out because they were left out in the corresponding paragraph above.
