agreement

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

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːmənt/

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agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

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 nearing agreement;  he nodded his agreement.

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

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.

3. (uncountable, law) 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 (obsolete)

   Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:

     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.

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

• consent, approval

• consensus
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• metagenre

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

• egramente, magnerete, mangerete

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

agreement n (uncountable)

1. agreement