agreement
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French agreement, agrement.
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NounEdit
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
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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.
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to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement.
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- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
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The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
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- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (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.
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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.
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- (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 [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
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
HyponymsEdit
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
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Related terms
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TranslationsEdit
an understanding to follow a course of conduct
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legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law
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grammatical agreement
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Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: sleep · ex · mere · #689: agreement · ship · third · evil