agreement

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EtymologyEdit

From Old French agreement, agrement.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːmənt/

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NounEdit

agreement ‎(countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

   to enter an agreement;  the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;  he nodded his agreement.‎

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

   The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.‎

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:

     Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

SynonymsEdit

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (grammar, linguistics): concord, concordance
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from agreement

• agreement coorporation
• agreement in principle
• Buttonwood Agreement
• collective agreement
• concession agreement
• definitive agreement
• framework agreement
• gentleman's agreement
• heads of agreement
• in agreement
• interest rate agreement
• knock-for-knock agreement

• letter agreement
• margin agreement
• Multilateral Agreement
• nondisclosure agreement
• option agreement
• partnership agreement
• prenuptial agreement
• purchase agreement
• sales agreement
• Schengen Agreement
• security agreement
• service level agreement

• single union agreement
• Smithsonian Agreement
• standby agreement
• standstill agreement
• strike an agreement with
• subordination agreement
• subscription agreement
• throughput agreement
• tolling agreement
• tripartite agreement
• underwriting agreement
• working agreement

HyponymsEdit

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• agreeance

• agreed

• agreed upon

See alsoEdit

• consent, approval

TranslationsEdit

an understanding to follow a course of conduct

• Bulgarian: съгласие (bg) ‎(sǎglasie)
• Catalan: acord (ca) m, pacte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協議 (zh), 协议 (zh) ‎(xiéyì)

• Czech: domluva f, souhlas (cs) m, soulad (cs) m
• Danish: aftale (da) c, samtykke (da) n
• Dutch: afspraak (nl), overeenkomst (nl), goedkeuring (nl) f
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• French: accord (fr) m, entente (fr) f, pacte (fr) m
• German: Vereinbarung (de) f, Zustimmung (de) f
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f ‎(symfonía)
• Hebrew: הסכם m ‎(heském), הסכמה f ‎(haskamá)
• Hungarian: megegyezés (hu), egyezmény (hu)
• Irish: conradh m
• Italian: consenso (it) m, accordo (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) ‎(gōi), 一致 (ja) ‎(itchi), 納得 ‎(nattoku), 賛成 (ja) ‎(sansei)
• Khmer: កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀង ‎(kech prom priang)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یه‌ککه‌وتن ‎(yekkewtin)

• Kyrgyz: макулдук (ky) ‎(makulduk)

• Latin: sponsio f, pactum n, foedus (la)
• Malay: persetujuan
• Maori: whakaaetanga, kirimana
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norman: accord m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: avtale (no) m, samtykke n

  Bokmål: overenskomst m

• Persian: پیمان (fa) ‎(peymân)
• Polish: umowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: consenso (pt) m, acordo (pt) m, pacto (pt) m
• Romanian: acord (ro) n, consens (ro) n, înțelegere (ro) f
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n ‎(soglásije), догово́р (ru) m ‎(dogovór), до́говор (ru) m ‎(dógovor), соглаше́ние (ru) n ‎(soglašénije), договорённость (ru) f ‎(dogovorjónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m, còrdadh m, aonta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: споразум

  Roman: sporazum (sh)

• Slovene: dogovor m
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m, convenio (es) m
• Swahili: mkataba (sw)
• Swedish: avtal (sv) n, överenskommelse (sv) c, samtycke (sv) n
• Vietnamese: đồng ý (vi)

state whereby several parties share a view or opinion

• Arabic: اقرار m
• Bulgarian: съглашение (bg) ‎(sǎglašenie)
• Catalan: acord (ca) m
• Czech: domluva f
• Danish: enighed c, overensstemmelse c
• Dutch: overeenstemming (nl) f
• Finnish: yksimielisyys (fi)
• French: accord (fr) m
• German: Einigkeit (de) f, Einvernehmen (de) n, Übereinstimmung (de) f
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f ‎(symfonía)
• Hebrew: הסכמה f ‎(haskamá)
• Hungarian: egyetértés (hu)
• Italian: accordo (it) m, convenzione (it) f, patto (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) ‎(gōi), 協定 (ja) ‎(kyōtei)
• Norman: accord m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: یه‌ککه‌وتن ‎(yekkewtin)

• Kyrgyz: келишим (ky) ‎(kelişim)
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norwegian: enighet (no) m, overensstemmelse m
• Persian: توافق (fa) ‎(tavâfoq)
• Polish: zgoda (pl) f, porozumienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: acordo (pt) m
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n ‎(soglásije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m, aonta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сагласност f

  Roman: saglasnost f

• Slovene: soglasje n
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: enighet (sv) c, överensstämmelse (sv) c

legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law

• Arabic: اِتِّفَاقِيَّة f ‎(ittifāqiyya), عقد (ar) m
• Bulgarian: договор (bg) ‎(dogovor)
• Catalan: contracte (ca) m, conveni (ca) m
• Czech: dohoda (cs) f
• Dutch: contract (nl) n
• Estonian: leping, kokkulepe
• French: contrat (fr) m
• German: Vertrag (de) m
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f ‎(symfonía), συμφωνητικό (el) n ‎(symfonitikó), συνθήκη (el) f ‎(synthíki)
• Hebrew: הסכם m ‎(heském)
• Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), megegyezés (hu)
• Italian: contratto (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) ‎(gōi)

• Khmer: កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀង ‎(kech prom preang)
• Kyrgyz: макулдашуу ‎(makuldaşuu)
• Lithuanian: sutartis f
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norwegian: avtale (no) m
• Persian: پیمان (fa) ‎(peymân)
• Polish: umowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: contrato (pt) m
• Russian: соглаше́ние (ru) n ‎(soglašénije), договорённость (ru) f ‎(dogovorjónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còrdadh m, aonta m
• Slovene: pogodba (sl) f
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m, convenio (es) m, contrato (es) m
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: avtal (sv) n
• Thai: ความตกลง (th) ‎(khwam tok long) (international law), ข้อตกลง ‎(kho tok long) (any other sense)

grammatical agreement

• Bulgarian: съгласува́не (bg) n ‎(sǎglasuváne)
• Catalan: concordança f
• Czech: shoda (cs) f
• Esperanto: konkordo
• French: accord (fr) m
• German: Kongruenz (de) f
• Hebrew: הסכמה f ‎(haskama)
• Icelandic: samræmi (is) n
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: concordanza (it) f
• Norman: accord m
• Kyrgyz: тууралаштыруу (ky) ‎(tuuralaştıruu)

• Latin: congruentia f
• Norwegian: kongruens (no) m
• Polish: związek zgody (pl) m
• Portuguese: concordância (pt) f
• Romanian: acord (ro) n
• Russian: согласова́ние (ru) n ‎(soglasovánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m
• Spanish: concordancia f
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: kongruens (sv) c
• Udmurt: тупатскон ‎(tupatskon)

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Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} emglev m
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} споразумение (bg) n ‎(sporazumenie)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} perjanjian (id), ^{(please verify)} persetujuan (id), ^{(please verify)} kesepakatan (id)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} acord (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} înțelegere f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} dogovor, ^{(please verify)} договор
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} అంగీకారం (te) ‎(aṃgīkāraṃ), ^{(please verify)} ఒప్పందం (te) ‎(oppaṃdaṃ), ^{(please verify)} ఒడంబడిక (te) ‎(oḍaṃbaḍika)

See alsoEdit

• consensus
• Agreement on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia

StatisticsEdit

Most common English words before 1923: sleep · ex · mere · #689: agreement · ship · third · evil

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English agreement.

NounEdit

agreement m ‎(invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

AnagramsEdit

• magnerete
• mangerete