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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (6)
1. the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
- Example: "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"
- Example: "there was an understanding between management and the workers"
[syn: agreement, understanding]
2. compatibility of observations;
- Example: "there was no agreement between theory and measurement"
- Example: "the results of two tests were in correspondence"
[syn: agreement, correspondence]
3. harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
- Example: "the two parties were in agreement"
[syn: agreement, accord]
4. the thing arranged or agreed to;
- Example: "they made arrangements to meet in Chicago"
[syn: agreement, arrangement]
5. the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations;
[syn: agreement, concord]
6. the verbal act of agreeing;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Agreement \A*gree"ment\, n. [Cf. F. agr['e]ment.] 1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. [1913 Webster] What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? --2 Cor. vi. 16. [1913 Webster] Expansion and duration have this further agreement. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) (a) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract. (b) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. --Abbott. Brande & C. [1913 Webster] Syn: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
299 Moby Thesaurus words for "agreement": Anschluss, OK, acceptance, accession, acclamation, accommodation, accompaniment, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, addition, adjustment, affiliation, affinity, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agape, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, agreement in principle, agreement of all, alikeness, alliance, amalgamation, amity, analogy, aping, approach, approbation, approval, approximation, arrangement, assent, assentation, assimilation, association, aye, bargain, binding agreement, blend, blending, blessing, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, cabal, cahoots, caritas, cartel, cement of friendship, centralization, charity, chime, chorus, closeness, co-working, coaction, coalescence, coalition, coequality, coetaneity, coetaneousness, coevalneity, coevalness, coexistence, coincidence, collaboration, collective agreement, collectivity, collusion, combination, combine, combined effort, combo, commitment, common assent, common consent, communion, community, community of interests, compact, comparability, comparison, compatibility, compliance, composition, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concord, concordance, concordat, concourse, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confluence, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congeniality, congeries, conglomeration, congruence, congruity, conjugation, conjunction, connivance, consensus, consensus gentium, consensus of opinion, consensus omnium, consent, consentaneity, consilience, consistency, consolidation, consonance, consortium, conspiracy, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, contract, convention, conventionality, cooperation, copying, correspondence, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, dicker, eagerness, ecumenism, embodiment, empathy, employment contract, encompassment, endorsement, engagement, enosis, entente, equality, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, federalization, federation, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, flexibility, formal agreement, frictionlessness, fusion, general acclamation, general agreement, general consent, general voice, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, hearty assent, homogeneity, homoousia, hookup, identity, imitation, inclusion, incorporation, indistinguishability, integration, ironclad agreement, junta, keeping, kinship, league, legal agreement, legal contract, like-mindedness, likeness, likening, line, love, malleability, marriage, meeting of minds, meld, melding, merger, metaphor, mimicking, mutual agreement, mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, no difference, obedience, obligation, observance, okay, one accord, one voice, oneness, orthodoxy, package, package deal, pact, paction, parallelism, parasitism, parity, peace, permission, pliancy, preengagement, promise, promptitude, promptness, protocol, rapport, rapprochement, ratification, readiness, reciprocity, recognizance, reconcilement, reconciliation, resemblance, same mind, sameness, sanction, saprophytism, self-identity, selfhood, selfness, selfsameness, semblance, settlement, sharing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, simultaneity, single voice, solidarity, solidification, stipulation, strictness, submission, support, symbiosis, sympathy, symphony, synchronism, synchronization, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synergy, synonymity, synonymousness, synonymy, synthesis, team spirit, tie-up, total agreement, traditionalism, transaction, treaty, tune, unanimity, unanimousness, understanding, undertaking, ungrudgingness, unification, uniformity, union, union contract, unison, united action, unity, universal agreement, unloathness, unreluctance, valid contract, verbal agreement, wage contract, warm assent, wedding, welcome, willingness
