0 present participle of placate
1 to stop someone from feeling angry:
Outraged minority groups will not be placated by promises of future improvements.
Yet on the other hand, policy is also fiendishly designed to supply cheap labour while placating a nativist electorate.
The behaviour implicit in the clause will be partly construed as a justification for placating the unions, whether as a down payment or not.
All this talk of placating and incentives is coming from the other side.
It might have been due to the difficulties of placating and consulting all the interests concerned but it is a bad delay nevertheless.
At present some sentencing seems to be geared more to placating the victims or their families' rage.
We are placating the wealthy and punishing the poor.
The reason for that is the necessity of appeasing or placating the sentiment of the local authorities.
I very much doubt whether you can buy off the wolves by placating the jackals.
