consensual
pronunciation
How to pronounce consensual in British English:
UK [kənˈsenʃuəl]
How to pronounce consensual in American English:
US [kən'senʃʊrl]
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- Adjective:
- existing by consent
Word Origin
- consensual (adj.)
- 1754, "having to do with consent," from stem of Latin consensus (see consensus) + -al (1). Meaning "by consent" is attested from 1800.
Example
- 1. But the framework for negotiations is as robust as it could be under a consensual process .
- 2. Both parties did indeed call the affair between boss and subordinate consensual .
- 3. A further headwind is that politics is rather consensual .
- 4. Undermining the consensual system of labour relations .
- 5. Part of the reason I didn 't like working in that department was that everyone was too polite and too consensual .