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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In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to her mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.
In the first place, he must make such an agreement for tithes as may be beneficial to himself and not offensive to his patron.
To Elizabeth it appeared, that had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would have been impossible for them to play their parts with more spirit, or finer success; and happy did she think it for Bingley and her sister that some of the exhibition had escaped his notice, and that his feelings were not of a sort to be much distressed by the folly which he must have witnessed.
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.
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