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agreement

//əˈɡɹiːmənt//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for agreement

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Forms

Plural
agreements

Definitions

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

    • The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
  2. 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. 3.A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. 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

Related words

Word family

Etymology

Etymology tree

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

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