consent  

Pronunciation of consent: K AH0 N S EH1 N T (kən'sɛnt)

Number of syllables of consent: 2

Definition of consent

• (n): permission to do something; "he indicated his consent"  
• (v): give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"  

Examples of consent

• The consent of the teen is not required.  
• Second, the soliloquy about informed consent is entirely misplaced.  
• The checkride may not continue without the consent of the applicant.  
• The most pertinent age is an unfettered age of consent.  
• But the informed consent of patients must underwrite that objective.  
• At the time, the homosexual age of consent was 21.  
• They must get parents' consent before using fingerprint technology on pupils.  
• We choose to follow the decorum to which we consent.  
• A consent decree can be either interlocutory or final.  
• Voluntary euthanasia is that with the consent of the subject.