[syn: agreement, concord]
6. the verbal act of agreeing;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Agreement \A*gree"ment\, n. [Cf. F. agr['e]ment.]
1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action,
or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good
agreement subsists among the members of the council.
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What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
--2 Cor. vi.
16.
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Expansion and duration have this further agreement.
--Locke.
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2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another
in gender, number, case, or person.
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3. (Law)
(a) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be
done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual
understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a
contract.
(b) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal
promises. --Abbott. Brande & C.
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Syn: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
agreement
n 1: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
"they had an agreement that they would not interfere in
each other's business"; "there was an understanding between
management and the workers" [syn: agreement,
understanding]
2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement
between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests
were in correspondence" [syn: agreement, correspondence]
3: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the
two parties were in agreement" [syn: agreement, accord]
[ant: disagreement, dissension, dissonance]
4: the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to
meet in Chicago" [syn: agreement, arrangement]
5: the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of
word relations [syn: agreement, concord]
6: the verbal act of agreeing [ant: disagreement]