Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of agreeing.
  • noun Harmony of opinion; accord.
  • noun An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.
  • noun A properly executed and legally binding contract.
  • noun The writing or document embodying this contract.
  • noun Grammar Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of agreeing or of being in accord.
  • noun Union of opinions or sentiments; harmony in feeling; absence of dissension: as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
  • noun In grammar, correspondence of words in respect of number, gender, etc. See agree, v., I., 8. In logic, capability of being true together: said of terms.
  • noun The act of coming to a mutual arrangement; a bargain, contract, covenant, or treaty: as, he made an agreement for the purchase of a house.
  • noun Agreeable quality or circumstance; agreeableness: generally in the plural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity.
  • noun (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
  • noun A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
  • noun The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
  • noun uncountable A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
  • noun uncountable, law A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
  • noun uncountable, linguistics 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.
  • noun obsolete, chiefly in plural An agreeable quality.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
  • noun compatibility of observations
  • noun the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
  • noun the verbal act of agreeing
  • noun harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • noun the thing arranged or agreed to

Etymologies

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From Old French agreement, agrement.

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  • What was also striking about the Senate bill was how the pols felt compelled to win agreement from the oil, coal and nuclear industries before even considering moving forward on it.

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  • What was also striking about the Senate bill was how the pols felt compelled to win agreement from the oil, coal and nuclear industries before even considering moving forward on it.

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  • What was also striking about the Senate bill was how the pols felt compelled to win agreement from the oil, coal and nuclear industries before even considering moving forward on it.

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  • AgreeMENt

    July 8, 2008

  • The act of agreeing.

    Harmony of opinion; accord.

    An arrangement between parties regarding a course of action; a covenant.

    June 19, 2010