CONFUSABLE WORDS: assent – consent

If you give your assent to something that has been proposed, or if a proposal has your assent, you agree to it.

• Haldane acted in these talks with the full assent of Grey and the Foreign Office.

• “Cocoa all round”. People murmured assent.

• There is at least grudging assent to this rule.


If you give your consent to something, you give the permission that is needed for it to happen or be done.


• I have to ring the education office to get official consent.

• They ask for no-one’s consent to come, they just arrive.

• Have you the husband’s consent to take this child out of the country?


Your can also say that when a number of people all agree that something is the case, or that something should be done, they do it by consent.

• The question of whether ordinary people can govern by themselves by consent is still on trial.

• By common consent they stopped

Grammar

Assent and consent can also be used as verbs.

• They all assented to the proposition.

• If he and Belinda were to run away together, her father would consent to the marriage in order to avoid a scandal.

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Translation Exercise

1. to comprise: 1. comprender, constar de: The council comprised/was comprised of 101 members. El consejo constaba de 101 miembros. 2. constituir: Farmers comprise 2% of the population. Los agricultores constituyen el 2% de la población.
2. demand: 1. exigencia, reclamación. 2. La demanda (econ.): supply and demand, la oferta y la demanda.
3. currency: moneda nacional: the world currency markets, los mercados monetarios internacionales. 2. divisas: foreign currency, divisas extranjeras.
4. to swear: 1. jurar, echar votos o reniegos (decir groserías). 2. jurar, declarar bajo juramento. 3. tomar juramento a.
5. to demand that it accompany (US): empleo del subjuntivo después del verbo to demand (no hay –s en la tercera personal del sg. en accompany o uso de should + infinitivo sin to (GB). Se construyen de esta manera: to order (ordenar), to command (mandar), to request (pedir) to require (exigir).
6. consular fee= consular charges, consulage.
7. current account: 1. cuenta (bancaria) 2. cuenta (contabilidad): invisible account, cuenta de operaciones invisibles.
8. to balance an account: saldar/equilibrar una cuenta. To balance:: equilibrar; balance: equilibrio, balanza: balance of visible trade, balanza comercial visible 2. saldo: credit balance, saldo acreedor activo.
9. Normalmente, una cuenta de ventas viene con el importe que se adeuda (the amount due), que se salda con una letra a la vista (a sight draft).
10. account, sales: no omita la coma que marca claramente la diferencia con el orden determinante/determinado (ver sales account, reporte de ventas.)
11. También se denomina the gross proceeds, el producto bruto.
12. Costos de desembarque y de almacenamiento, p.ej.
13. También se le llama the net proceeds, el producto neto.
14. to undercharge sb. by…: cobrar menos a alguien (por…), contrario de overcharge sb. for sth, cobrar de más a alguien por algo. Viene de: to charge sb…for sth, cobrarle a alguien por algo.
15. to settle (v.t) 1. ubicar, instalar 2. pagar (cuenta) 3. solucionar (problema, asunto) 4. (jur.) asignar (una anualidad).
to cancel an order, anular un pedido; to book an order, registrar un pedido; the breakdown of an invoice, el detalle de una factura.


Source: Cobuild Collins – Confusable words. – Exportar - Larousse

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