agreement

Meaning

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
3. (uncountable) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable) 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.
5. (countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable) An agreeable quality.

Synonyms

contract

consent

accord

harmony

concord

promise

pact

treaty

covenant

concurrence

assent

accordance

arrangement

compact

convention

understanding

approval

deal

commitment

compliance

unity

conformity

compromise

stipulation

union

accommodation

acquiescence

acceptance

bargain

concordance

unanimity

friendship

consonance

correspondence

coincidence

settlement

peace

☮️

appointment

acknowledgment

acknowledgement

engagement

mood

consistency

alliance

congruity

recognition

concurrency

agree

condition

decision

Translations

accord

accordo

acuerdo

acordo

συμφωνία

Übereinstimmung

Vertrag

Zustimmung

entente

Abkommen

Vereinbarung

Übereinkunft

Einverständnis

contrat

overeenstemming

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: agrement

In summary

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.