agreement
Pronunciation: /əˈɡɹiːmənt/
The English word “agreement” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- 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.
- An agreeable quality.
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.
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More English words
- agreed
- agreeing
- agreeingly
- agreeingness
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- agreement conferring jurisdiction
- agreement in principle
- agreement of tenses
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