gentlemen's agreement

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   a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding

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Questions about gentlemen's agreement

What does gentlemen's agreement mean?

gentlemen's agreement means "a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding".

Is gentlemen's agreement a common word?

gentlemen's agreement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.