agreement

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Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Old French a-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós

Proto-Italic *gʷrātos

Latin grātus

Latin grātumder.

Old French gré

Old French agreer

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-məntom

Latin -mentum

Old French -ment

Old French agrementbor.

Middle English agrement

English agreement

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːmənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: a‧gree‧ment

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

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

   Coordinate term: conspiracy

   to enter an agreement

   The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.

   He nodded his agreement.

   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

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.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) 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.

   Synonyms: concord, concordance (obsolete)

   Coordinate terms: government, regimen, rection (archaic)

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:

     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 features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

Synonyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Derived terms

• agreement as to succession
• agreement conferring jurisdiction
• agreement coorporation
• agreement in principle
• agreement on the choice of court
• antiagreement
• anti-agreement
• Aumann's agreement theorem
• Buttonwood Agreement
• Chequers agreement
• choice of court agreement
• choice of forum agreement
• collective agreement
• collective-bargaining agreement
• concession agreement
• conditional agreement
• contractual agreement
• deferred prosecution agreement
• definitive agreement
• disagreement
• double tax agreement
• end user license agreement
• end-user license agreement
• executive agreement
• financial agreement
• forum selection agreement
• framework agreement
• gentleman's agreement
• gentlemen's agreement
• heads of agreement
• in agreement
• interagreement
• interest rate agreement
• knock-for-knock agreement
• legal agreement
• letter agreement
• margin agreement
• memorandum of agreement
• midnuptial agreement
• misagreement
• monstrous agreement
• Multilateral Agreement
• nonagreement
• non-disclosure agreement
• nondisclosure agreement
• option agreement
• partnership agreement
• portmanteau agreement
• postnuptial agreement
• prenuptial agreement
• prenuptual agreement
• purchase agreement
• raging agreement
• sales agreement
• Schengen Agreement
• security agreement
• service agreement
• service level agreement
• settlement agreement
• shareholders' agreement
• single union agreement
• Smithsonian Agreement
• standby agreement
• standstill agreement
• strike an agreement with
• subordination agreement
• subscription agreement
• throughput agreement
• time agreement
• tolling agreement
• trade agreement
• tripartite agreement
• unagreement
• underwriting agreement
• working agreement
• works agreement

Related terms

• agreeance
• agreed
• agreed upon

Translations

understanding to follow a course of conduct

• Albanian: ujdi (sq)
• Arabic: اِتِّفَاق m (ittifāq), تَوَافُق m (tawāfuq), تَفَاهُم m (tafāhum)

  Moroccan Arabic: اتفاقية f (tifāqiyya)

• Azerbaijani: razılaşma, saziş (az), müqavilə (az), bağlaşma
• Belarusian: пагадне́нне n (pahadnjénnje)
• Bengali: ঐকমত্য (bn) (ōikōmōttō), মতৈক্য (bn) (motōikkō), ঐক্য (bn) (ōikkō)
• Bulgarian: съгла́сие (bg) n (sǎglásie)
• Catalan: acord (ca) m, pacte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 協議 / 协议 (zh) (xiéyì), 同意 (zh) (tóngyì), 答應 / 答应 (zh) (dāying), 協定 / 协定 (zh) (xiédìng)

• Corsican: accordu m
• Czech: domluva f, souhlas (cs) m, soulad (cs) m
• Danish: aftale (da) c, samtykke (da) n
• Dutch: afspraak (nl), overeenkomst (nl) f, goedkeuring (nl) f
• Esperanto: interkonsento
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• French: accord (fr) m, entente (fr) f, pacte (fr) m
• Galician: acordo (gl) m
• German: Vereinbarung (de) f, Zustimmung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (samaqiss)
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)

  Ancient Greek: συντονία f (suntonía), ὁμολογία f (homología), συμφωνία f (sumphōnía), συμφώνησις f (sumphṓnēsis), σύνθημα n (súnthēma)

• Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם (he) m (heském), הַסְכָּמָה f (haskamá)
• Hindi: सहमति f (sahamti), इक़रार m (iqrār), समझौता (hi) m (samjhautā)
• Hungarian: megegyezés (hu), egyezmény (hu)
• Irish: conradh m
• Italian: consenso (it) m, accordo (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) (ごうい, gōi), 一致 (ja) (いっち, itchi), 納得 (ja) (なっとく, nattoku), 賛成 (ja) (さんせい, sansei)
• Kazakh: келісім (kelısım)
• Khmer: កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀង (kəc prɔɔm priəng), កតិកា (km) (kaʼtekaa)
• Korean: 협정(協定) (hyeopjeong), 합의(合意) (ko) (habui), 동의(同意) (ko) (dong'ui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەککەوتن (yekkewtin)

  Northern Kurdish: peyman (ku) f, tifaq (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: макулдук (ky) (makulduk), келишим (ky) (kelişim)
• Lao: ກະຕິກາ (lo) (ka ti kā), ຂໍ້ຕົກລົງ (lo) (khǭ tok long)
• Latin: spōnsiō f, pactum n, foedus (la), compectum n
• Macedonian: спогодба f (spogodba), агрема́н m (agremán)
• Malay: persetujuan (ms)
• Malayalam: ഉടമ്പടി (ml) (uṭampaṭi), തീരുമാനം (ml) (tīrumānaṁ)
• Maltese: ftehim (mt)
• Māori: whakaaetanga, kirimana
• Mirandese: acuordo m
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norman: accord m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avtale (no) m, samtykke (no) n, overenskomst m

• Persian:

  Dari: پَیمَان (paymān), تَوَافُق (tawāfuq)

  Iranian Persian: پِیْمان (peymân), تَوافُق (tavâfoġ)

• Polish: umowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: consenso (pt) m, acordo (pt) m, pacto (pt) m
• Romanian: acord (ro) n, consens (ro) n, înțelegere (ro) f
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), до́говор (ru) m (dógovor), соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije), договорённость (ru) f (dogovorjónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m, còrdadh m, aonta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спо̏разӯм m

  Latin: spȍrazūm (sh) m

• Sicilian: accordu (scn) m, accordiu (scn) m
• Slovak: dohoda (sk) f
• Slovene: dogovor m
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m, convenio (es) m, tratado (es) m, pacto (es) m, concordato m, concordata f, venencia f
• Swahili: mkataba (sw)
• Swedish: avtal (sv) n, överenskommelse (sv) c, samtycke (sv) n
• Tagalog: usapan
• Tajik: маслиҳат (tg) (maslihat), созиш (soziš), тавофуқ (tavofuq)
• Thai: กติกา (th) (gà-dtì-gaa)
• Tocharian B: plāksar
• Tok Pisin: agrimen
• Ukrainian: уго́да f (uhóda), до́говір m (dóhovir), домо́вленість f (domóvlenistʹ)
• Unami: naxkùntëwakàn
• Vietnamese: đồng ý (vi), hiệp định (vi)
• Walloon: acoird (wa) m
• Welsh: cydfod (cy) m, cytundeb (cy) m, cytgord m

state whereby several parties share a view

• Albanian: marrveshje
• Arabic: إِقْرَار m (ʔiqrār)

  Moroccan Arabic: اتفاقية f (tifāqiyya)

• Bulgarian: съглаше́ние (bg) n (sǎglašénie)
• Catalan: acord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一致 (zh) (yīzhì), 贊同 / 赞同 (zh) (zàntóng)

• Czech: domluva f
• Danish: enighed c, overensstemmelse c
• Dutch: overeenstemming (nl) f
• Esperanto: samopinio
• Finnish: yksimielisyys (fi)
• French: accord (fr) m
• Georgian: შეთანხმება (šetanxmeba)
• German: Einigkeit (de) f, Einvernehmen (de) n, Übereinstimmung (de) f, Einverständnis (de) n, Abkommen (de) n
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌵𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (samaqiss)
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)
• Hebrew: הַסְכָּמָה f (haskamá)
• Hindi: समझौता (hi) m (samjhautā), अनुबंध (hi) m (anubandh)
• Hungarian: egyetértés (hu)
• Italian: accordo (it) m, convenzione (it) f, patto (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) (ごうい, gōi), 協定 (ja) (きょうてい, kyōtei)
• Kazakh: келiсiм (kelisim)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یەککەوتن (yekkewtin)

  Northern Kurdish: hevgirtin (ku) f, hevbendî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: келишим (ky) (kelişim)
• Latin: consensus m
• Malayalam: തീരുമാനം (ml) (tīrumānaṁ), യോജിപ്പ് (ml) (yōjippŭ)
• Mirandese: acuordo m
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norman: accord m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enighet (no) m, overensstemmelse m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَوافُق (tavâfoġ)

• Polish: zgoda (pl) f, porozumienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: acordo (pt) m
• Russian: согла́сие (ru) n (soglásije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m, aonta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сагласност f

  Latin: saglasnost f

• Slovene: soglasje n
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: enighet (sv) c, överensstämmelse (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: agrimen
• Turkish: uzlaşma (tr)
• Ukrainian: зго́да f (zhóda)
• Walloon: acoird (wa) m
• Welsh: cydwelediad m, cytundeb (cy) m

legally binding contract

• Albanian: marrëveshje (sq) f, kontratë (sq) f
• Arabic: اِتِّفَاق m (ittifāq), اِتِّفَاقِيَّة (ar) f (ittifāqiyya), عَقْد (ar) m (ʕaqd), مُقَاوَلَة f (muqāwala), مُعَاهَدَة (ar) f (muʕāhada)

  Moroccan Arabic: عقد (ʕaqd)

• Armenian: համաձայնագիր (hy) (hamajaynagir), պայմանագիր (hy) (paymanagir)
• Azerbaijani: müqavilə (az), bağlaşma
• Belarusian: дагаво́р (be) m (dahavór), умо́ва (be) f (umóva)
• Bengali: চুক্তি (bn) (cukti), সমঝোতা (bn) (śomjhōta), সন্ধি (bn) (śōndhi)
• Bulgarian: до́говор (bg) m (dógovor)
• Burmese: စာချုပ် (my) (cahkyup), ကတိ (my) (ka.ti.)
• Catalan: contracte (ca) m, conveni (ca) m, acord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 合同 (hap⁶ tung⁴), 合約 / 合约 (hap⁶ joek³)

  Mandarin: 合同 (zh) (hétong), 合約 / 合约 (zh) (héyuē)

• Czech: dohoda (cs) f, smlouva (cs) f
• Danish: aftale (da) c
• Dutch: overeenkomst (nl) f, contract (nl) n
• Esperanto: interkonsento
• Estonian: leping (et), kokkulepe
• Finnish: sopimus (fi)
• French: contrat (fr) m, accord (fr) m, pacte (fr) m
• Galician: avinza (gl) f, contrato (gl) m, acordo (gl) m
• Georgian: შეთანხმება (šetanxmeba)
• German: Vertrag (de) m
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía), συμφωνητικό (el) n (symfonitikó), συνθήκη (el) f (synthíki)

  Ancient Greek: συνθήκη f (sunthḗkē), ὁμολογία f (homología), σύμβασις f (súmbasis), σύνθημα n (súnthēma), συγγραφή f (sungraphḗ)

• Hawaiian: ʻaelike
• Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם (he) m (heském)
• Hindi: अनुबंध (hi) m (anubandh), समझौता (hi) m (samjhautā), सन्धि (hi) f (sandhi)
• Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), megegyezés (hu)
• Icelandic: samningur (is) m
• Indonesian: perjanjian (id), persetujuan (id)
• Irish: comhaontú m
• Italian: contratto (it) m
• Japanese: 合意 (ja) (ごうい, gōi)
• Kazakh: шарт (şart), келiсiм (kelisim), уағдаластық (uağdalastyq)
• Khmer: កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀង (kəc prɔɔm priəng), សន្យា (km) (sɑnyaa), កតិកា (km) (kaʼtekaa)
• Korean: 조약(條約) (ko) (joyak), 협정(協定) (hyeopjeong), 합의(合意) (ko) (habui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lihevhatin (ku), peyman (ku)

• Kyrgyz: макулдашуу (makuldaşuu), келишим (ky) (kelişim), договор (ky) (dogovor)
• Lao: ຂໍ້ຕົກລົງ (lo) (khǭ tok long), ກະຕິກາ (lo) (ka ti kā)
• Latvian: vienošana f, līgums m
• Lithuanian: sutartis f, sutartis m
• Macedonian: договор (mk) m (dogovor), спогодба f (spogodba)
• Malay: perjanjian, persetiaan
• Malayalam: കരാർ (ml) (karāṟ)
• Māori: kupu whakaae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гэрээ (mn) (geree)

  Mongolian script: ᠭᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ (ger-e)

• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avtale (no) m, overenskomst m

• Occitan: acòrdi (oc) m
• Pashto: شرطنامه (ps) f (šartnāmá), پيمان (ps) m (paymãn)
• Persian:

  Dari: پَیمَان (paymān), تَوَافُق (tawāfuq), مُقَاوَلَه (muqāwala)

  Iranian Persian: پِیْمان (peymân), تَوافُق (tavâfoġ), مُقاوَلِه (moġâvale)

• Polish: umowa (pl) f, kontrakt (pl) m
• Portuguese: contrato (pt) m
• Romanian: contract (ro) n
• Russian: соглаше́ние (ru) n (soglašénije), догово́р (ru) m (dogovór), до́говор (ru) m (dógovor), договорённость (ru) f (dogovorjónnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: còrdadh m, aonta m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спо̏разӯм m, до̏гово̄р m, у̏гово̄р m

  Latin: spȍrazūm (sh) m, dȍgovōr (sh) m, ȕgovōr (sh) m

• Slovak: dohoda (sk) f, zmluva f
• Slovene: pogodba (sl) f, dogovor m
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m, convenio (es) m, contrato (es) m
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: avtal (sv) n, fördrag (sv) n
• Tajik: созишнома (sozišnoma), тавофуқ (tavofuq), шартнома (šartnoma), аҳднома (ahdnoma), паймон (paymon), муқовала (muqovala)
• Thai: ความตกลง (th) (kwaam-dtòk-long) (international law), ข้อตกลง (kɔ̂ɔ-dtòk-long) (any other sense), กติกา (th) (gà-dtì-gaa)
• Tok Pisin: agrimen
• Turkish: sözleşme (tr), mukavele (tr), antlaşma (tr)
• Turkmen: şertnama
• Ukrainian: уго́да f (uhóda), до́говір m (dóhovir) умо́ва (uk) f (umóva)
• Unami: naxkùntëwakàn
• Urdu: اِقْرار نامَہ m (iqrār nāma), مُعاہَدَہ m (mu'āhada), تَوافُق m (tavāfuq), پَیمَان m (paimān)
• Uyghur: شەرتنامە (shertname)
• Uzbek: shartnoma (uz), ahdnoma (uz), ahd (uz), paymon (uz) (dated or literary)
• Vietnamese: hiệp định (vi), hợp đồng (vi)
• Walloon: acoird (wa) m
• Welsh: cytundeb (cy) m, cyfamod m
• Yiddish: אָבמאַך f (obmakh)

grammatical agreement

• Albanian: akordim (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوَافَقَة f (muwāfaqa)
• Azerbaijani: uzlaşma
• Belarusian: дапасава́нне n (dapasavánnje)
• Bulgarian: съгласу́ване (bg) n (sǎglasúvane)
• Catalan: concordança f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 一致 (zh) (yīzhì)

• Czech: shoda (cs) f
• Danish: kongruens (da) c
• Dutch: congruentie (nl) f
• Esperanto: konkordo
• Finnish: kongruenssi (fi)
• French: accord (fr) m
• Galician: concordancia (gl) f
• German: Kongruenz (de) f
• Greek: συμφωνία (el) f (symfonía)
• Hebrew: הַסְכָּמָה f (haskama)
• Hungarian: (the phenomenon) egyezés (hu), (the activity of language users) egyeztetés (hu)
• Icelandic: samræmi (is) n
• Irish: aontas m
• Italian: concordanza (it) f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hevbendî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: тууралаштыруу (ky) (tuuralaştıruu)
• Latin: congruentia f
• Norman: accord m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kongruens (no) m

• Polish: związek zgody (pl) m, kongruencja f
• Portuguese: concordância (pt) f
• Romanian: acord (ro) n
• Russian: согласова́ние (ru) n (soglasovánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: aontachadh m
• Spanish: concordancia (es) f
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: kongruens (sv) c
• Udmurt: тупатскон (tupatskon)
• Ukrainian: узго́дження n (uzhódžennja)
• Vietnamese: hợp (vi)
• Walloon: acoird (wa) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Breton: ^{(please verify)} emglev (br) m
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} споразуме́ние (bg) n (sporazuménie)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} perjanjian (id), ^{(please verify)} persetujuan (id), ^{(please verify)} kesepakatan (id)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} acord (ro) n, ^{(please verify)} înțelegere (ro) f
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} అంగీకారం (te) (aṅgīkāraṁ), ^{(please verify)} ఒప్పందం (te) (oppandaṁ), ^{(please verify)} ఒడంబడిక (te) (oḍambaḍika)

See also

• approval
• consent

See also

• consensus
• agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• metagenre

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

Noun

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• egramente, magnerete, mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. alternative form of agrement

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English agreement.

Noun

agreement n (uncountable)

1. agreement

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	agreement	agreementul
genitive-dative	agreement	agreementului
vocative	agreementule