Pronunciation Verb
agree (agrees, present participle agreeing; past and past participle agreed)
- (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
- all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, a sonnet in The Passionate Pilgrim
- If music and sweet poetry agree.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Mark 14:56 ↗:
- For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
- The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
- (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
- to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
- (transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
- 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post:
- Bishops agree sex abuse rules
- 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post:
- (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), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 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), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 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?
- (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
- the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
- (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.
- (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
- In Romanian, the articles, adjectives, pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.
- (intransitive, legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
- (harmonize in opinion) concur, harmonize; See also Thesaurus:agree
- (yield assent) accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede or Thesaurus:assent
- (yield assent to) approve, set
- (come to terms or to a common resolve) bargain, deal, engage; See also Thesaurus:bargain
- (be conformable) coincide, correspond, match, resemble
- (do well) fit, suit
- (grammar)
- (law)
- gree#Etymology_4
- French: être d'accord, consentir
- German: zustimmen, einverstanden sein
- Italian: essere d'accordo, concordare
- Portuguese: concordar, estar de acordo
- Russian: соглаша́ться
- Spanish: estar de acuerdo, coincidir
- German: akzeptieren, annehmen
- Portuguese: aceitar
- Spanish: acceder, asentir
- German: sich verständigen
- Italian: accordarsi
- Portuguese: concordar
- Spanish: consensuar
- French: concorder
- Italian: corrispondere, concordare
- Portuguese: concordar
- Spanish: concordar
- French: accorder
- German: kongruieren, übereinstimmen; (uncommon) nachfolgen
- Italian: concordare
- Portuguese: concordar
- Spanish: concordar
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