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agreement

/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

noun

Meaning

  • 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."

  • 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."

  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  • (grammar) 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.

  • (chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.

Synonyms

settlement,
accord,
concurrence,
congeniality,
harmony,
amenity,
niceness,
pleasantness,
concord,
convention,
covenant,
meeting of the minds,
pact,
treaty,
concord,
concordance