agreement
English
/əˈɡɹiːmənt/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (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.
- (obsolete) An agreeable quality.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English agrement derived from Old French agrement.
Origin
Old French
agrement
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antiagreement English
- disagree English
- disagreement English
- end user English
- end user license agreement English
- license English
- nonagreement English
- predisagreement English
- prenuptial English
- prenuptial agreement English
- service English
- service agreement English
- unagreement English
- agreement Italian
- agrément French
- agreen Middle English
- agrement Middle English
- agrement Old French
- गिरमिट Hindi
- गिरमिटिया Hindi
- agriman Tok Pisin
- girmit Fiji Hindi