[usuallybeforenoun] (written) that is suggested indirectly or understood, rather than said in words:
tacit approval / support / knowledge * By tacit agreement, the subject was never mentioned again.
tacitly adverb:
It was tacitly assumed that he would be promoted at the end of the year.
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