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See also: agrée and agréé

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed)

  1. (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
    Synonym: concur
    All parties agree in the expediency of the law.
    I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.
    I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.
  2. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede.
    It was agreed to meet here at midday.
    The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
  3. (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
    • 1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88:
      ... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...
    • 2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59:
      The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.
    • 2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post:
      Bishops agree sex abuse rules
  4. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  5. (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.
    The picture does not agree with the original.
    The two scales agree exactly.
  6. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
    The same food does not agree with every constitution.
  8. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
    Coordinate term: govern
    In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
  9. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

Usage notes

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  • This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
  • This is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
  • The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to or upon.
  • US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

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Translations

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Galo

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Noun

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agree

  1. rainbow

Middle English

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Verb

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agree

  1. alternative form of agreen

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer.

Verb

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agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreein, simple past and past participle agreed)

  1. to consent to
  2. (occasionally) to suffer no injury from (sth)

References

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Etymology

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From Middle English agre, from Old French a gre.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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agree

  1. natively
    • 1978, A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy:
      They are not agree to the place.
      They are not natives of the place.

References

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  • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[2], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 153
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