0 past simple and past participle of acquiesce
1 to accept or agree to something, often unwillingly:
Reluctantly, he acquiesced to/in the plans.
Instead, it acquiesced in judicial reformist activity until legislation on the subject began in the 1920s.
Though they fought long and hard against segregated churches and parishes, they eventually acquiesced in order to have access to better schooling.
None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.
Planters eventually acquiesced because they maintained control over crucial productive decisions : cotton is what they wanted, and cotton is what the sharecroppers grew.
There were, however, a few others concerned about the new system who, because of their particular circumstances, acquiesced prior to ratification.
In an effort to prevent controversy, the administration quietly acquiesced in the new political reality.
The political leaders who forged or acquiesced in that alliance are either not aware of its importance or not willing to admit it.
However, they acquiesced with 'family' decisions to maintain non-working young adult women ascribing such decisions to the men in the family.
