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agreement

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agreement

(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.
(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.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics, 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.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
(obsolete, chiefly in the 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 [...].

Synonyms

(An understanding to follow a course of conduct) concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
(A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion) congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
(A legally binding contract) settlement
(linguistics, grammar) concord, concordance
(An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, niceness

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