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Gentlemen's agreement   Listen
noun
Gentlemen's agreement  n.  An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.






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"Gentlemen's agreement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Skinyer, settling himself back in his chair. "Now, first, in regard to the creation," here he looked all round the meeting in a way to command attention—"Is it your wish that we should leave that merely to a gentlemen's agreement or do you want an ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock

... as a gentlemen's agreement, and to be kept," marked Len Spencer, rather severely. "I have been giving up my time to this affair of yours, and my time is worth something. But take seats. Have you boys any paper to show that you represent ...
— The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics • H. Irving Hancock



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