consent meaning
EN[kənˈsɛnt] [-ɛnt]US
WConsent
- Consent is agreement or permission to do or allow something.
FR consent
- NounPLconsentsPREcon-SUF-ent
- VerbSGconsentsPRconsentingPT, PPconsented
- (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.
- After reflecting a little bit, I've consented.
- (transitive, medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
- When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
- (transitive, obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
- (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Another approach, called the selective, repeated, or reconsent model, requires that participants consent to each individual future study that wishes to use their data.
- Although I don't consent to their holding such meetings, I will allow them for the time being.
- A canny business strategist who tends to express himself tersely — even more so now that his voice has been hoarsened by several strokes — he has rarely consented to interviews.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of consent in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary