agreement
//əˈɡɹiːmənt//
Forms
- Plural
- agreements
Definitions
1.An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
2.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.
3.A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1255
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
Latin grātus
Latin grātumder.
Old French gré
Old French agreer
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥