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tacit

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Understood without being stated directly.

There was tacit agreement that everyone would help clean up.

Dictionary practice example.

By the second meeting, the team had developed a tacit understanding that whoever brought the floor plan would lead the first discussion. Nobody restated the arrangement, but Omar and the designers followed their established practice.

From Reading the Whole Meeting.

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