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Meaning of agreement

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

agreement

Pronunciation:/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

noun

Definitions

  1. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    Example: to enter an agreement;  the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;  he nodded his agreement.

  2. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

    Example: The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

  3. A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. (grammar) 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.