tacit
(adjective)
Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
Examples of tacit in the following topics:
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Price Leadership
- Price leadership is a form of tacit collusion that oligopolies may use to achieve a monopoly-like market outcome.
- An alternative to overt collusion is tacit collusion, in which firms have an unspoken understanding that limits their competition.
- For example, the steel, cars, and breakfast cereals industries have all been accused of engaging in tacit collusion..
- Tacit collusion can be difficult to identify.
- The fact that a price change by one firm is follwed by similar price changes among other firms doesn't necessarily mean that tacit collusion exists.
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Energy of a Bohr Orbit
- The tacit assumption here is that the nucleus is more massive than the stationary electron, and the electron orbits about it.
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Shuttle Diplomacy
- ., and sought to demonstrate to the People's Republic of China (Pakistan's ally and an enemy of both India and the USSR) the value of a tacit alliance with the United States.
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Types of Organizational Culture
- These are tacit assumptions that infect the way in which communication occurs and individuals behave.
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Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace
- Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial segregation, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.
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Defining Organizational Culture
- ., focus on quality, loyalty or other central values) and most complexly through tacit assumptions (i.e., unspoken rules of behavior and other intangible expectations that are very difficult to observe and measure).
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Oligarchy
- After the Second Boer War, a tacit agreement or understanding was reached between English- and Afrikaans-speaking whites.
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Yalta's Legacy
- Moreover, 25 of these MPs risked their careers to draft an amendment protesting against Britain's tacit acceptance of Poland's domination by the Soviet Union.
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Two Spices for the Business Kitchen
- Even engineers and other "hard skills" experts are going to have to rely "more on creativity than competence, more on tacit knowledge than technical manuals, and more on fashioning the big picture than sweating the details."
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Discrimination Based on Sex and Gender
- Some researchers see the root cause of this situation in the tacit discrimination based on gender, conducted by current top executives and corporate directors (who are primarily male).