Look up: consensus

1. consensus
   [Noun] Consensus is a general and widespread agreement about something.
   Example: There is a national consensus that the railways are terrible.
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2. consensus
   the word means a generally shared agreement. The term is used in particular by Marxist critics of the media, who argue that the media operate to create a consensus in society (or at least an illusion of consensus) that the norms, laws and rules in our society are the only 'right' ones, which any rig...
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3. consensus
   [n] - agreement of the majority in sentiment or belief
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4. consensus
   general agreement,characterized by the absence of sustained opposition to substantial issues by any important part of the concerned interests and by a process that involves seeking to take into account the views of all parties concerned and to reconcile any conflicting arguments Category: Law...
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5. Consensus
   Con·sen'sus noun [ Latin See Consent .] Agreement; accord; consent. « That traditional consensus of society which we call public opinion. Tylor. »
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6. consensus
   noun agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole; `the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions`; `those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus`
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7. Consensus
   • (n.) Agreement; accord; consent.
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8. consensus
   (from the article `Northeast Indian`) Persuasion was an important skill for leaders because most communities used a consensus model for decision making; issues were discussed until there ... ...sufferings of others and a mandate laid upon the conscience to take action to alleviate that suffering. Such concerns typically are laid before ...
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9. consensus
   consensus An agreement or a general opinion. Consensus is an agreement or opinion which should be sound, but not all sound or a general agreement where all men have a perfect right to their opinions, provided they agree with ours; and it`s the result of a group discussion in which, singly, a person...
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10. CONSENSUS
    Proper name: Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits. An agreement between ECAs governing the terms of their support of export credit guarantees and interest rate subsidies.
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11. Consensus
    (medical) `Medical consensus` is a public statement on a particular aspect of medical knowledge available at the time it was written, and that is generally agreed upon as the evidence-based, state-of-the-art (or state-of-science) knowledge by a representative group of experts in that area. It...
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12. Consensus
    (computer science) `Consensus` is a problem in distributed computing that encapsulates the task of group agreement in the presence of faults. Consensus has been shown to be impossible to solve in several models of distributed computing. In an asynchronous system, where processes have no commo...
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