Dictionary Definition
agreement
Noun
1 the statement (oral or written) of an exchange
of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere
in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between
management and the workers" [syn: understanding]
2 compatibility of observations; "there was no
agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two
tests were in correspondence" [syn: correspondence]
3 harmony of people's opinions or actions or
characters; "the two parties were in agreement" [syn: accord] [ant: disagreement]
4 the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made
arrangements to meet in Chicago" [syn: arrangement]
5 the determination of grammatical inflection on
the basis of word relations [syn: concord]
6 the verbal act of agreeing [ant: disagreement]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /əˈgɹiːmənt/
Noun
- In the context of "countable": An understanding between individuals to follow a specific course of conduct, such as an agreement to commit a crime (a conspiracy).
- In the context of "uncountable": A state whereby two parties
share a view or opinion.
- The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement.
- In the context of "countable": An expression or indication that
an agreement has been reached.
- He nodded his agreement
- In the context of "law|countable": A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- In the context of "linguistics|uncountable": 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.
- In the context of "uncountable": 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.
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Translations
understanding between individuals
state whereby two parties share a view or
opinion
- Danish: enighed
- Finnish: yksimielisyys
- French: accord
- German: Einigkeit, Einvernehmen
- Greek: συμφωνία
- Hebrew:
- Italian: accordo
- Japanese: 合意 (gōi), 協定 (kyōtei)
- Norwegian: enighet
- Portuguese: acordo
- Russian: согласие
- Slovene: soglasje
- Swedish: enighet , överensstämmelse
expression or indication that an agreement has
been reached
legally binding contract enforceable in a court
of law
grammatical agreement
- French: accord
- German: Kongruenz
- Hebrew: הסכמה (haskama)
- Norwegian: kongruens
- Portuguese: concordância
- Russian: согласование (soglasovánije)
- Swedish: kongruens
The state of not contradicting another one
- Czech: souhlas
- Danish: overensstemmelse
- French: accord
- German: Übereinstimmung
- Greek: συμφωνία
- Hebrew:
- Norwegian: overensstemmelse
- Polish: zgadzać, w zgodzie
- Portuguese: pacto
- Russian: согласие
- Slovene: soglasje
- Swedish: överensstämmelse
- ttbc Breton: emglev , -ioù p
- ttbc Bulgarian: съгласие , споразумение
- ttbc Indonesian: perjanjian, persetujuan, kesepakatan
- ttbc Romanian: acord , înţelegere
- ttbc Serbian: dogovor, договор
- ttbc Spanish: acuerdo
- ttbc Telugu: అంగీకారం, ఒప్పందం, ఒడంబడిక
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Extensive Definition
Agreement may refer to:
- Agreement (linguistics), cross-reference between parts of a phrase
- Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law
- Contract, enforceable in a court of law
- Pact
- Consensus
- Double agreement (miscommunication), when one person 'agrees' (as in 'a pact') with another person's agreement; a confusing and rare occurrence.
agreement in Czech: Dohoda
agreement in German: Vereinbarung
agreement in Esperanto: Konsento
agreement in Slovak: Dohoda
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Anschluss, OK, acceptance, accession, acclamation, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, addition, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative
voice, agape, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, agreement in
principle, agreement of all, alikeness, alliance, amalgamation, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approbation, approval, approximation, arrangement, assent, assentation, assimilation, association, aye, bargain, binding agreement,
blend, blending, blessing, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly
love, cabal, cahoots, caritas, cartel, cement of friendship,
centralization,
charity, chime, chorus, closeness, co-working,
coaction, coalescence, coalition, coequality, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coincidence, collaboration, collective
agreement, collectivity, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort,
combo, commitment, common assent,
common consent, communion, community, community of
interests, compact,
comparability,
comparison, compatibility, compliance, composition, concert, concerted action,
concomitance,
concord, concordance, concordat, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, conformance, conformation
other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congeries, conglomeration, congruence, congruity, conjugation, conjunction, connivance, consensus, consensus gentium,
consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency, consolidation, consonance, consortium, conspiracy, contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness,
contract, convention, conventionality,
cooperation,
copying, correspondence, covenant, covenant of salt,
deal, dicker, eagerness, ecumenism, embodiment, empathy, employment contract,
encompassment,
endorsement,
engagement, enosis, entente, equality, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization, federation, feeling of
identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, flexibility, formal
agreement, frictionlessness,
fusion, general
acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice,
good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, hearty assent, homogeneity, homoousia, hookup, identity, imitation, inclusion, incorporation, indistinguishability,
integration,
ironclad agreement, junta,
keeping, kinship, league, legal agreement, legal
contract, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, love, malleability, marriage, meeting of minds,
meld, melding, merger, metaphor, mimicking, mutual agreement,
mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, no difference,
obedience, obligation, observance, okay, one accord, one voice,
oneness, orthodoxy, package, package deal, pact, paction, parallelism, parasitism, parity, peace, permission, pliancy, preengagement, promise, promptitude, promptness, protocol, rapport, rapprochement, ratification, readiness, reciprocity, recognizance, reconcilement, reconciliation, resemblance, same mind,
sameness, sanction, saprophytism,
self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, settlement, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, single voice,
solidarity, solidification, stipulation, strictness, submission, support, symbiosis, sympathy, symphony, synchronism, synchronization,
syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, synthesis, team spirit,
tie-up, total agreement, traditionalism, transaction, treaty, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, undertaking, ungrudgingness, unification, uniformity, union, union contract, unison, united action, unity, universal agreement,
unloathness,
unreluctance, valid
contract, verbal agreement, wage contract, warm assent, wedding, welcome, willingness