agreement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/əˈɡɹiːmənt/ en-us-agreement.ogg

Word forms

agreement agreements

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Old French a- Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós Proto-Italic *gʷrātos Latin grātus Latin grātumder. Old French gré Old French agreer Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French agrementbor. Middle English agrement English agreement From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.

Translations

Albanian: akordim Arabic: مُوَافَقَة Azerbaijani: uzlaşma Belarusian: дапасава́нне Bulgarian: съгласу́ване Catalan: concordança Chinese Mandarin: 一致 Czech: shoda Danish: kongruens Dutch: congruentie Esperanto: konkordo Finnish: kongruenssi French: accord Galician: concordancia German: Kongruenz Greek: συμφωνία Hebrew: הַסְכָּמָה Hungarian: egyezés Hungarian: egyeztetés Icelandic: samræmi Irish: aontas Italian: concordanza Northern Kurdish: hevbendî Kyrgyz: тууралаштыруу Latin: congruentia Norman: accord Norwegian Bokmål: kongruens Polish: związek zgody Polish: kongruencja Portuguese: concordância Romanian: acord Russian: согласова́ние Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh Spanish: concordancia Swahili: maagano Swedish: kongruens Udmurt: тупатскон Ukrainian: узго́дження Vietnamese: hợp Walloon: acoird
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