Definition of acquiese

(The Christian Science Monitor...)

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free_world must acquiesce in dismemberment of_that living city .

So_far as the record is concerned , the Western powers have not acquiesced and should not do so .

(National Review...)

If we want to preserve our sovereignty , this is the way to do it ; not acquiesce to an international planning_board .