agreement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
Latin grātus
Latin grātumder.
Old French gré
Old French agreer
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Old French agrementbor.
Middle English agrement
English agreement
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.
Base: agree
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: agreements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to enter an agreement
The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
He nodded his agreement.
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.
gloss: A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
gloss: A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An agreeable quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
Synonyms: convention
covenant
meeting of the minds
pact
treaty
concurrence
harmony
accord
accordance
agreement
compliance
concert
sympathy
conformance
conformity
congruence
congruency
congruity
keeping
uniformity
unison
Antonyms: conflict
disagreement
discord
discordance
dissension
Related words: agreeance
agreed
agreed upon
approval
consent
consensus
agree
agreeable
pact
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: akordim
lang: Arabic
word: مُوَافَقَة
roman: muwāfaqa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: uzlaşma
lang: Belarusian
word: дапасава́нне
roman: dapasavánnje
lang: Bulgarian
word: съгласу́ване
roman: sǎglasúvane
lang: Catalan
word: concordança
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 一致
roman: yīzhì
lang: Czech
word: shoda
lang: Danish
word: kongruens
lang: Dutch
word: congruentie
lang: Esperanto
word: konkordo
lang: Finnish
word: kongruenssi
lang: French
word: accord
lang: Galician
word: concordancia
lang: German
word: Kongruenz
lang: Greek
word: συμφωνία
roman: symfonía
lang: Hebrew
word: הַסְכָּמָה
roman: haskama
lang: Hungarian
word: egyezés
lang: Hungarian
word: egyeztetés
lang: Icelandic
word: samræmi
lang: Irish
word: aontas
lang: Italian
word: concordanza
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hevbendî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тууралаштыруу
roman: tuuralaştıruu
lang: Latin
word: congruentia
lang: Norman
word: accord
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kongruens
lang: Polish
word: związek zgody
lang: Polish
word: kongruencja
lang: Portuguese
word: concordância
lang: Romanian
word: acord
lang: Russian
word: согласова́ние
roman: soglasovánije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: aontachadh
lang: Swahili
word: maagano
lang: Swedish
word: kongruens
lang: Udmurt
word: тупатскон
roman: tupatskon
lang: Ukrainian
word: узго́дження
roman: uzhódžennja
lang: Vietnamese
word: hợp
lang: Walloon
word: acoird