0 to accept or agree to something, often unwillingly: --
Reluctantly, he acquiesced to/in the plans.
1 to accept or agree to something, often without really wanting to: --
Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew.
Recall that in weak consensus there is a target group that acquiesces (despite lack of concurrence) to the consensus of an elite subgroup.
None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.
To acquiesce to such erosion of professional raison d'etre would seem to be evidence more of inertia than rationality.
The opponents of the new system had the option of refusing to acquiesce en masse.
Though they fought long and hard against segregated churches and parishes, they eventually acquiesced in order to have access to better schooling.
These employers found it more rational to battle the machinists' union than to acquiesce to it.
Or at least that will be so if we acquiesce in this sort of representation, because of how it serves our preferences.
