agreement
/əˈɡɹiːmənt/ noun B1- An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. · to enter an agreement· The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
- A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. · The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
- A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- 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.
Plural agreements
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This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.
THE LION, the Fox and the Ass entered into an agreement to assist each other in the chase.
We saw you when we returned from Tunbridge Wells last night, and you were in general agreement with our results.
“The treasure I speak of really exists, and I offer to sign an agreement with you, in which I promise to lead you to the spot where you shall dig; and if I deceive you, bring me here again,—I ask no more.”
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