agree
Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer, from a gré ("favorably"), from Latin ad + gratum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) enPR: ə-grē', IPA: /əˈɡɹiː/
  • (America) IPA: /əˈɡɹi/
Verb

agree (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.
    Synonyms: 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.
    • 1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC ↗:
      If music and sweet poetry agree.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Mark 14:56 ↗:
      For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
    • 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC ↗:
      The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
  2. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
    to agree to an offer or an opinion
    The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.
  3. (transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
  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.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Matt 5:25 ↗:
      Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, Matt 20:13 ↗:
      But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
  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.
  7. (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.
  8. (intransitive, legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
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