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pact

[ pakt ]

noun

  1. an agreement, covenant, or compact:

    We made a pact not to argue any more.

  2. an agreement or treaty between two or more nations:

    a pact between Germany and Italy.



pact

/ pækt /

noun

  1. an agreement or compact between two or more parties, nations, etc, for mutual advantage


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pact1

1400–50; late Middle English pact(e) < Middle French < Latin pactum, noun use of neuter of past participle of pacīscī to make a bargain, contract

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pact1

C15: from Old French pacte, from Latin pactum, from pacīscī to agree

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Example Sentences

The pact covered two months, September and October, but “may be extended by the parties,” the filing states.

At the same time, the Warsaw Pact threat was disintegrating.

The British, he said, were too weak to survive and would have to settle for a pact with Hitler.

Check out the app Pact, in which a community of fellow users will literally pay you to stick to your schedule.

When you reach your goal, you get paid out of a common pool funded by yourself and other pact-breakers.

The Federal Pact of 1815 had undone Napoleon's comparatively liberal constitution.

There was no majestic vision of a people rising in its own spontaneous might and deciding its destinies in a great national pact.

"A pact, my brother," said the man in the hunting-suit, extending his hand.

The conditions which existed before the pact of Konopisht were no more.

But in spite of this appeal and of a pact signed with the blood of the writer, no Satanic apparitions were forthcoming.

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