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agreement - the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" |
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understanding |
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statement a document showing credits and debits
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conspiracy,
confederacy a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
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fair-trade agreement an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer
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covenant (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
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unilateral contract a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)
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sales agreement,
sale a particular instance of selling; "he has just made his first sale"; "they had to complete the sale before the banks closed"
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term,
condition any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
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bargain,
deal an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; "he made a bargain with the devil"; "he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals"
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working agreement an informal agreement to work together
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gentlemen's agreement a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding
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written agreement a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties
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submission the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another
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entente,
entente cordiale a friendly understanding between political powers
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oral contract an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation
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reservation the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion
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settlement something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure"
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severance agreement an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave
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suicide pact an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; "the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact"
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agreement - the verbal act of agreeing |
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disagreement the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing
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speech act the use of language to perform some act
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assent,
acquiescence agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly"
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concurrency,
concurrence acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
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accordance,
accord,
conformity the act of granting rights; "the accordance to Canada of rights of access"
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collusion,
connivance secret agreement
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assenting,
accession the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne); "Elizabeth's accession in 1558"
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subscription the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature"
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ratification,
confirmation making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment"
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concordance,
harmony,
concord an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
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secondment,
endorsement,
indorsement,
second the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere
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concession a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
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agreement - harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement" |
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dissension,
disagreement,
dissonance the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing
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concordance,
harmony,
concord an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts
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community of interests,
community (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other
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meeting of minds,
concurrence acting together, as agents or circumstances or events
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consensus agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole; "the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions"; "those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus"
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sense of the meeting general agreement reached by an assembled group; "no vote was taken, but after each discussion the chair summed up the sense of the meeting"
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unanimity everyone being of one mind
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unison (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; "singing in unison"
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social contract an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
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agreement - the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
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grammatical relation a linguistic relation established by grammar
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number agreement agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)
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person agreement agreement in person between pronouns and verbs
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case agreement agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction
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gender agreement agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction
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agreement - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" |
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correspondence |
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compatibility capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
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conformance,
conformity acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices"
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agreement - the thing arranged or agreed to; "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago" |
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arrangement |
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planning,
provision,
preparation the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
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collusion secret agreement
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prearrangement something arranged in advance
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