the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.
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the state of being in accord.
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an arrangement that is accepted by all parties to a transaction.
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a contract or other document delineating such an arrangement.
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unanimity of opinion; harmony in feeling: agreement among the members of the faculty.
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Grammar. correspondence in number, case, gender, person, or some other formal category between syntactically connected words, esp. between one or more subordinate words and the word or words upon which they depend; selection by one word of the matching formal subclass, or category, in another word syntactically construed with the first.
an expression of assent by two or more parties to the same object.
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the phraseology, written or oral, of an exchange of promises.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME agrement < MF. See agree, -ment]
—Synonyms 3. understanding, accord, concurrence. Agreement,bargain,compact,contract all suggest a binding arrangement between two or more parties. Agreement ranges in meaning from mutual understanding to binding obligation. Bargain applies particularly to agreements about buying and selling but also to haggling over terms in an agreement. Compact applies to treaties or alliances between nations or to solemn personal pledges. Contract is used especially in law and business for such agreements as are legally enforceable. 8. settlement, treaty, pact.
An arrangement between parties regarding a course of action; a covenant.
Law
A properly executed and legally binding contract.
The writing or document embodying this contract.
Grammar Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.
Our Living Language: Speakers of vernacular dialects of English sometimes use constructions that do not conform to the standard pattern of subject-verb agreement, such as She walk, People goes, and Pat and Terry likes the new movie. The standard pattern calls for an -s ending on present-tense verbs with third-person singular subjects (such as the teacher or he/she/it) and no ending on verbs with any other kind of subject. Vernacular speakers smooth out this slight irregularity in one of two ways: They use -s endings for all persons and numbers (for example, I/you/she/we/they walks), or they use no inflection at all (for example, I/you/she/we/they go). The tendency to regularize agreement patterns is not confined to today's vernacular dialect speakers. Subject-verb agreement has gotten progressively less complicated throughout the development of English, and today's standard pattern is far simpler and more regular than the system used in older varieties of English, in which all verbs took person/number endings, in both present and past tense. Vernacular speakers who use patterns such as she go or the students walks are actively carrying on the historic tradition of simplifying agreement patterns. · Some vernacular subject-verb patterns retain historic patterns that have long faded out of general American English use. For example, speakers of Scotch-Irish heritage, including those who speak Appalachian and Ozark English, tend to preserve an agreement pattern in which the -s inflection is used more often with third-person plural subjects that refer to a group or collection of people or things than with other third-person plurals. These speakers are more likely to say People walks or A lot of them walks than The men walks or Five dogs barks. See Note at be.
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"
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compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence"
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harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement" [ant: disagreement]
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the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago"
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the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
The subject and verb of a clause or simple sentence must agree in person, as in “He is a boy.” The subject, he, and the verb, is, are both in the third person. The subject and verb also must agree in number, as in “We are girls.” The subject, we, and the verb, are, are both plural.
Nouns and pronouns must also agree in number, person, and gender as in “Every boy must mind his manners.” The noun boy and the pronoun his are both singular, both in the third person, and both masculine.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This Main Entry: agree·ment Function: noun 1 a: the act or fact of agreeing <by mutual agreement> b: unity of opinion, understanding,or intent; especially: the mutual assent of contracting parties to the same terms <if they reach agreement> NOTE: Under common law, agreement is a necessary elementof a valid contract. Under Uniform Commercial Code section 1-201(3), agreement is the bargain of the contracting parties as represented explicitly by their language or implicitly by other circumstances(as a course of dealings). 2 a: an expression (as a settlement, covenant, or contract) of the intent or willingness of two or more parties to bind at least one to terms usuallydetermined by negotiation <an agreement must be sufficiently definite before a court can enforce it —J. D. Calamari and J. M. Perillo> b: the language or instrumentembodying such an expression <signed the 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. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? --2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. --Locke. 2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. 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. Syn: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation.
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