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Agreement   /əgrˈimənt/   Listen
Agreement

noun
1.
The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises.  Synonym: understanding.  "There was an understanding between management and the workers"
2.
Compatibility of observations.  Synonym: correspondence.  "The results of two tests were in correspondence"
3.
Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters.  Synonym: accord.
4.
The thing arranged or agreed to.  Synonym: arrangement.
5.
The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations.  Synonym: concord.
6.
The verbal act of agreeing.



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"Agreement" Quotes from Famous Books



... meaningly: "If the old man does not keep his agreement, the troop will have its pleasure, and, for a change, swing him who likes to be called king of ...
— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger
... with his aggressive beard suddenly pointed a trifle more straight out, and Mr. Westlake with his placidity even more marked than usual, stalked on into the parlor, where Mr. Blackstone, taking the chair pro tem., read them the preliminary agreement he had drawn up; upon which Sam Turner immediately started to wrangle, a proceeding which proved ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... talked over the agreement I had made with father, and we planned a way to carry it out. Almost as excited about the Yellowstone as he, she was quite ready to camp through as I suggested. "We will hire a team at Livingston, and with our own outfit, will be independent of stages and hotels—but first I must show ...
— A Daughter of the Middle Border • Hamlin Garland
... from the fisheries to the great industrial centres where they were most needed. Townsfolk are starving, and in winter, cold. People living in rooms in a flat, complete strangers to each other, by general agreement bring all their beds into the kitchen. In the kitchen soup is made once a day. There is a little warmth there beside the natural warmth of several human beings in a small room. There it is possible to sleep. During the whole of last winter, ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome
... said the merry Miss Denby—'you know I told you that you are the funniest people I ever met, and you truly are. People generally come to an agreement between themselves before they speak to ...
— John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein • Frank R. Stockton


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