From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.

• IPA: /əˈɡɹiːmənt/

agreement

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

   Coordinate term: conspiracy

   to enter an agreement

   The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.

   He nodded his agreement.

2. (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.

   • 1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, p. 86f.:

     There is general agreement that, to the east, Low Saxon should be divided from East Low German (Ostniederdeutsch) approximately though quite coincidentally, along the modern border between the Federal Republic and the GDR, although there is no general agreement as to precisely where the dialect boundary should lie, or as to which isogloss should be crucial to its delineation. [...] The Low Saxon dialects are sometimes referred to collectively as West Low German (Westniederdeutsch) [...]

3. (uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (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.

   Synonyms: concord, concordance

   Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)

5. (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 [...].

• (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
• (An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, niceness

• French: accord, entente, pacte
• German: Vereinbarung, Zustimmung
• Italian: consenso, accordo
• Portuguese: consenso, acordo, pacto
• Russian: согла́сие
• Spanish: acuerdo, convenio

• French: accord
• German: Einigkeit, Einvernehmen, Übereinstimmung, Einverständnis, Abkommen
• Italian: accordo, convenzione, patto
• Portuguese: acordo
• Russian: согла́сие
• Spanish: acuerdo

• French: contrat, accord, pacte
• German: Vertrag
• Italian: contratto
• Portuguese: contrato
• Russian: соглаше́ние
• Spanish: acuerdo, convenio, contrato

• French: accord
• German: Kongruenz
• Italian: concordanza
• Portuguese: concordância
• Russian: согласова́ние
• Spanish: concordancia