agrement

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
   • to enter an agreement

   Synonyms:

   concord

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
   • The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

   Synonyms:

   congeniality

3. (uncountable) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

   Synonyms:

   settlement

4. (uncountable) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
   • Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number...1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306

   Synonyms:

   concord, concordance, agreeance

5. (in plural, obsolete) An agreeable quality.
   • Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII

   Synonyms:

   amenity, pleasantness, niceness