agreement

Plural: agreements

Noun

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
  • "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"
• compatibility of observations
  • "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"
• harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • "the two parties were in agreement"
• the thing arranged or agreed to
• the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
• the verbal act of agreeing
• An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
• A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
• A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
• 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.
• An agreeable quality.

Examples

• He nodded his agreement.
• The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
• The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
• to enter an agreement

Synonyms

accord, arrangement, concord, correspondence, understanding, accordance, agreement, amenity, compliance, concert, concordance, concurrence, conformance, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, convention, covenant, harmony, keeping, meeting of the minds, niceness, pact, pleasantness, settlement, sympathy, treaty, uniformity, unison

Antonyms

disagreement, conflict, discord, discordance, dissension

Related Words

agree, agreeable, agreeance, agreed, agreed upon, approval, consensus, consent, pact