pact
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French pacte, from Old French, from Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from paciscere (“to agree”).
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NounEdit
pact (plural pacts)
- An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
- write up a pact
- New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.
- (international law) An agreement between two or more nations
- (military) An alliance or coalition.
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TranslationsEdit
an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant
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an agreement between two or more nations
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VerbEdit
pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)
- (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
- 1992, John Higley; Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:
- When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.
Further readingEdit
- “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- pact at OneLook Dictionary Search
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pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)
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EtymologyEdit
From French pacte, from Latin pactum.
NounEdit
pact n (plural pacte)