agreement

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From Old French agreement, agrement.

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agreement (countable and uncountable; plural agreements)

  1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
    To enter an agreement.
    The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement.
    He nodded his agreement.
  2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
    The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
  3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
  4. (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.
  5. (obsolete, chiefly in 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 [...].

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  • (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

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agreement m (invariable)

  1. agreement (pact, accord)

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