agreement

UK/əˈɡɹiːmənt/US/əˈɡɹiːmənt/

nounB12 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,668 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: agreements

An agreement is what you have when two sides decide the same thing and both accept it. A handshake, or forty pages of contract.

The word covers both the state and the document, so being in agreement is a feeling and signing an agreement is an act. It takes on, about or with. Grammar has its own precise sense, since subject-verb agreement means the two must match in number. Trade agreements, peace agreements and tenancy agreements are all standard phrases, and reaching an agreement is what negotiations are for.

Definitions of agreement

1nounagreementA shared decision or understanding between parties.B1~16%
“They came to an agreement about the boundary.”
2noundocumentA formal document setting out terms.B1~84%
“Read the agreement before you sign it.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 19 sentences found in the wild and placed 19 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

Middle English
agrement
English, today
agreement

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 14 of A Man Called Ove.

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agreement in the wild

The effects of the agreement regarding issues such as employment, the environment, and economic growth have been the subject of political disputes.
North American Free Trade Agreement
After U.S. president Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he sought to replace NAFTA with a new agreement, beginning negotiations with Canada and Mexico.
North American Free Trade Agreement
An employee can be required to sign an NDA or NDA-like agreement with an employer, protecting trade secrets.
Non-disclosure agreement
In legal disputes resolved by settlement, the parties often sign a confidentiality agreement relating to the terms of the settlement.
Non-disclosure agreement
International agreements were used in some form by most major civilizations and became increasingly common and more sophisticated during the early modern era.
Treaty

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Definitions of agreement

1nounagreementA shared decision or understanding between parties.B1~16%

“They came to an agreement about the boundary.”

2noundocumentA formal document setting out terms.B1~84%

“Read the agreement before you sign it.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 19 sentences found in the wild and placed 19 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.