agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːmənt/
Forms: form: agreements
Etymology: From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: to enter an agreement
text: The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
text: He nodded his agreement.
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
coordinate_terms: conspiracy
glosses: An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
examples: text: The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
glosses: A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
topics: law
glosses: A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: concord
concordance
coordinate_terms: government
regimen
rection
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
ref: 1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:
glosses: An agreeable quality.
Synonyms: sense: An understanding to follow a course of conduct
word: concord
word: convention
word: covenant
word: meeting of the minds
word: pact
word: treaty
sense: A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion
word: congeniality
word: concurrence
word: harmony
word: accord
sense: A legally binding contract
word: settlement
sense: An agreeable quality
word: amenity
sense: An agreeable quality
word: pleasantness
sense: An agreeable quality
word: niceness
word: accordance
word: agreement
word: compliance
word: concert
word: sympathy
word: conformance
word: conformity
word: congruence
word: congruency
word: congruity
word: keeping
word: uniformity
word: unison
Derived terms: agreement as to succession
agreement conferring jurisdiction
agreement coorporation
agreement in principle
agreement on the choice of court
antiagreement
anti-agreement
Aumann's agreement theorem
Buttonwood Agreement
Chequers agreement
choice of court agreement
choice of forum agreement
collective agreement
collective-bargaining agreement
concession agreement
conditional agreement
contractual agreement
deferred prosecution agreement
definitive agreement
disagreement
double tax agreement
end user license agreement
end-user license agreement
executive agreement
financial agreement
forum selection agreement
framework agreement
gentleman's agreement
gentlemen's agreement
heads of agreement
in agreement
interagreement
interest rate agreement
knock-for-knock agreement
legal agreement
letter agreement
margin agreement
memorandum of agreement
midnuptial agreement
misagreement
monstrous agreement
Multilateral Agreement
nonagreement
non-disclosure agreement
nondisclosure agreement
option agreement
partnership agreement
portmanteau agreement
postnuptial agreement
prenuptial agreement
prenuptual agreement
purchase agreement
raging agreement
sales agreement
Schengen Agreement
security agreement
service agreement
service level agreement
settlement agreement
shareholders' agreement
single union agreement
Smithsonian Agreement
standby agreement
standstill agreement
strike an agreement with
subordination agreement
subscription agreement
throughput agreement
time agreement
tolling agreement
trade agreement
tripartite agreement
unagreement
underwriting agreement
working agreement
works agreement
Related terms: word: agreeance
word: agreed
word: agreed upon
word: approval
word: consent
word: consensus
word: agree
word: agreeable
word: pact