agreement

[ uh-gree-muhnt ]

/ əˈgri mənt /

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noun

the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.

the state of being in accord.

an arrangement that is accepted by all parties to a transaction.

a contract or other document delineating such an arrangement.

unanimity of opinion; harmony in feeling: agreement among the members of the faculty.

Grammar. correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, especially between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed with the first.

collective agreement.

Law.

an expression of assent by two or more parties to the same object.
the phraseology, written or oral, of an exchange of promises.

Origin of agreement

1375–1425; late Middle English agrement < Middle French. See agree, -ment

SYNONYMS FOR agreement

3 understanding, accord, concurrence.

8 settlement, treaty, pact.

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3. Agreement, bargain, compact, contract all suggest a binding arrangement between two or more parties. Agreement ranges in meaning from mutual understanding to binding obligation. Bargain applies particularly to agreements about buying and selling but also to haggling over terms in an agreement. Compact applies to treaties or alliances between nations or to solemn personal pledges. Contract is used especially in law and business for such agreements as are legally enforceable.

OTHER WORDS FROM agreement

in·ter·a·gree·ment, noun non·a·gree·ment, noun pre·a·gree·ment, noun pro·a·gree·ment, adjective

Words nearby agreement

agravic, agree, agreeable, agreeance, agreed, agreement, agrestal, agrestic, agri-, agri-environmental, agria

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Ronald Reagan approved the agreement and the USTR reviewed Korean practices through the end of his term.

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In November 2014, that agreement was extended by four months, with some additional restrictions on Iran.

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The agreement has three main points, all of which Iran has met, the IAEA says.

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“The CIA has since paid out more than $1 million pursuant to the agreement,” the report notes.

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For obvious reasons, finalizing such an agreement would have required the presence and signature of both candidates.

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"I thought that we had already come to an agreement," said Simpson, with some warmth.

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Agreement can make its own fortune, and need not wait to be endowed.

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Article 10 reserves the rights of Poland and declares that this Agreement shall not apply to her.

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So you will wait, or the agreement shall be broken by you, not by me.

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By an agreement, all parties met at Indian Spring to consider a second treaty, early in February, 1825.

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British Dictionary definitions for agreement

agreement

/ (əˈɡriːmənt) /

noun

the act of agreeing

a settlement, esp one that is legally enforceable; covenant; treaty

a contract or document containing such a settlement

the state of being of the same opinion; concord; harmony

the state of being similar or consistent; correspondence; conformity

Also called: concord grammar the determination of the inflectional form of one word by some grammatical feature, such as number or gender, of another word, esp one in the same sentence

See collective agreement, national agreement

Word Origin for agreement

C14: from Old French

Cultural definitions for agreement

agreement

A requirement for parts of a sentence in standard written English; the parts must agree, for example, in number and person.

The subject and verb of a clause or simple sentence must agree in person, as in “He is a boy.” The subject, he, and the verb, is, are both in the third person. The subject and verb also must agree in number, as in “We are girls.” The subject, we, and the verb, are, are both plural.

Nouns and pronouns must also agree in number, person, and gender as in “Every boy must mind his manners.” The noun boy and the pronoun his are both singular, both in the third person, and both masculine.

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