Associations to the word «Agreement»

Wiktionary

AGREEMENT, noun. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
AGREEMENT, noun. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
AGREEMENT, noun. (uncountable) (legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
AGREEMENT, noun. (uncountable) (linguistics) 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.
AGREEMENT, noun. (obsolete) (chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE, noun. (idiomatic) (legal) A legally enforceable, but incompletely specified, agreement between parties that identifies the fundamental terms that are intended to be or are agreed upon.

Dictionary definition

AGREEMENT, 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"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers".
AGREEMENT, noun. Compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence".
AGREEMENT, noun. Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement".
AGREEMENT, noun. The thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago".
AGREEMENT, noun. The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations.
AGREEMENT, noun. The verbal act of agreeing.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky