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• n  (law) tacit approval of someone's wrongdoing

• connivance
• secret approval

News & Articles

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• Vatican embassy move draws fire from former US envoys
  Plans to move the U.S. embassy to the Vatican onto the grounds of the larger American embassy to Italy, though in a separate building and with a distinct entrance, are drawing fire from five former American envoys despite the tacit consent of the Vatican itself.
  Nov. 20, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter