# consenting

Pronunciation: say "kuhn-SENT-ing" /kənˈsɛntɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Giving consent; willing to agree to or permit something.
   - Simple: Willing to agree to something or to let it happen.
   - _Researchers may only enroll consenting participants in the trial._
   - _A consenting partner makes the whole arrangement much simpler._
3. Engaged in or carried out with the agreement of every person involved.
   - Simple: Agreed to by all the people who take part.
   - _His lawyer argued that the encounter had been a consenting one and that no crime took place._
   - _Privacy advocates insist the state has no business policing consenting sex between adults in their own homes._

## Verb

2. Present participle and gerund of consent. — present participle and gerund of consent
   - Simple: The -ing form of consent. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _Consenting to the merger, the directors approved the contract that afternoon._
   - _His consenting to the search later undercut his lawyer's argument at trial._

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