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/əgrˈimənt/ Listen

noun

Agreement n.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. "What agreement hath the temple of God with idols?" "Expansion and duration have this further agreement."

(Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

(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.

Synonyms: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agreement" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bell's patent was sixteen months' old, Casson's History tells us there were seven hundred and seventy-eight telephones in use and the Bell Telephone Association was formed. The organization was held together by an extremely simple agreement which gave Bell, Hubbard, and Saunders a three-tenths' interest apiece in the patents and Watson one-tenth. The business possessed no capital, as there was none to be had; and these four men at that time had an absolute monopoly of the telephone business,—and everybody ...

— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett

... not held to be a thing impossible that there should be agreement in the meaning of Plato and Sophocles, neither is it to be regarded as absurd, that there should be a like agreement in the interpretation of Scripture?" (p. 426.)—The whole force of this argument clearly consisting ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... made an agreement to meet Varcy to-morrow at Knowles; from thence we go to Tunbridge; so I shall live on Monday on the Pantiles, and on Tuesday return here. I dine to-day with the Essex's at March's; we supped last night at Lady Harrington's, the consequence of which is to eat a turtle ...

— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... in almost an infinite number of ways, varying not only the length of the period of practice, but also the length of time elapsing between periods. The experimental work done in connection with these methods has not resulted in agreement. No doubt there is an optimum length of period for practice and an optimum interval, but too many factors enter in to make any one statement. "The experimental results justify in a rough way the avoidance ...

— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy

... soon grew insipid, and it was with sincere rejoicing that on the 5th of March we were made acquainted with Mr. Maddison's agreement to the terms proposed. All was now hope and exultation, an immediate departure was anticipated, and those were pitied as unfortunate whose lot it was supposed, might detain them even a day behind their fellows. But as ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

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