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say it: uh-GREE-muhnt
agreement is a noun meaning "the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
compatibility of observations
“there was no agreement between theory and measurement”
“the results of two tests were in correspondence”
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
“the two parties were in agreement”
the thing arranged or agreed to
“they made arrangements to meet in Chicago”
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
the verbal act of agreeing
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for agreement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.