Agreement

//əˈɡɹiːmənt// noun

Definitions

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

    "to enter an agreement"

  2. 2
    compatibility of observations wordnet
  3. 3
    A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. uncountable

    "The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity."

  4. 4
    the thing arranged or agreed to wordnet
  5. 5
    A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. uncountable
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  1. 6
    the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises wordnet
  2. 7
    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. uncountable

    "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."

  3. 8
    the verbal act of agreeing wordnet
  4. 9
    An agreeable quality. countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable

    "Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...]."

  5. 10
    the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations wordnet
  6. 11
    harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.

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