agreement

/əˈgrimənt/

/əˈgrimənt/

Other forms: agreements

An agreement is made when two parties agree to something. So, for example, a mother might make an agreement with her son not to kiss him in public because, after kindergarten, well, that's just not cool.

If people's opinions are in accord, or match one another, then they are in agreement. If a teacher assigns a ten-page paper due the next day, the students would be in agreement that the assignment was unfair. A written or verbal contract can also be called an agreement. An agreement to deliver an article a month for a publication could not be broken simply because you have writer's block.

Definitions of agreement

1. noun

   harmony of people's opinions, actions, or characters
   “the two parties were in agreement”

   synonyms: accord

   antonyms:

   disagreement

   a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

   types:

   community, community of interests

   agreement as to goals

   concurrence, meeting of minds

   a state of cooperation

   consensus

   agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole

   sense of the meeting

   general agreement reached by an assembled group

   unanimity

   everyone being of one mind

   unison

   the state of corresponding exactly

   social contract

   an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection

   type of:

   concord, concordance, consonance, harmony

   a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
2. noun

   compatibility of observations
   “there was no agreement between theory and measurement”

   synonyms: correspondence

   types:

   conformance, conformity

   correspondence in form or appearance

   justness, nicety, rightness

   conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety

   normality

   conformity with the norm

   type of:

   compatibility

   capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
3. noun

   the verbal act of agreeing
   antonyms:

   disagreement

   the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

   types:

   acquiescence, assent

   agreement with a statement or proposal to do something

   concurrence, concurrency

   agreement of results or opinions

   accord, accordance, conformity

   concurrence of opinion

   collusion, connivance

   agreement on a secret plot

   accession, assenting

   agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

   subscription

   agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name

   confirmation, ratification

   making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it

   concord, concordance, harmony

   agreement of opinions

   endorsement, indorsement, second, secondment

   a speech seconding a motion

   concession

   a point conceded or yielded

   acceptance

   (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

   conceding, concession, yielding

   the act of conceding or yielding

   cahoot

   collusion

   sop

   a concession given to mollify or placate

   judicial admission, stipulation

   (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record

   takeaway

   a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures

   wage concession

   an agreement to raise wages

   type of:

   speech act

   the use of language to perform some act
4. noun

   the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
   “they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business”

   synonyms: understanding

   types:

   confederacy, conspiracy

   a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

   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

   covenant

   (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

   unilateral contract

   a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)

   sale, sales agreement

   an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)

   bargain, deal

   an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

   working agreement

   an informal agreement to work together

   gentlemen's agreement

   a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding

   written agreement

   a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties

   submission

   an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

   entente, entente cordiale

   a friendly understanding between political powers

   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

   reservation

   the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

   settlement

   a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

   severance agreement

   an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave

   suicide pact

   an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time

   contract

   a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

   conspiracy of silence

   a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event

   conditional sale

   a sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price)

   execution sale, forced sale, judicial sale, sheriff's sale

   a sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation

   submission

   a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

   compact, concordat, covenant

   a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

   indenture

   formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

   obligation

   a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply

   accord, pact, treaty

   a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

   accommodation

   a settlement of differences

   conclusion

   a final settlement

   out-of-court settlement

   resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court

   property settlement

   (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage

   accord and satisfaction

   the settlement of a debt by paying less than the amount demanded in exchange for extinguishing the debt

   golden handshake

   a lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire)

   escrow

   a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition

   type of:

   statement

   a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
5. noun

   the thing arranged or agreed to
   synonyms: arrangement

   types:

   collusion

   secret agreement

   prearrangement

   something arranged in advance

   reservation

   something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)

   type of:

   planning, preparation, provision

   the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
6. noun

   in grammar, the correspondence between two words
   synonyms: concord

   types:

   number agreement

   agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)

   person agreement

   agreement in person between pronouns and verbs

   case agreement

   agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction

   gender agreement

   agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction

   type of:

   grammatical relation

   a linguistic relation established by grammar