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agreement.

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

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

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

    countable
    to enter an agreement
    The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.

  2. 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.

  3. A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

    uncountable

  4. 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

  5. An agreeable quality.

    countable · in-plural · obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Latin grātumder. Old French gré Old French agreer Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French agrementbor. Middle English agrement English agreement From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.

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