agreement

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹiːmənt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

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.

   • 1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A critical approach to German sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, page 86f:

     There is general agreement that, to the east, Low Saxon should be divided from East Low German (Ostniederdeutsch) approximately though quite coincidentally, along the modern border between the Federal Republic and the GDR, although there is no general agreement as to precisely where the dialect boundary should lie, or as to which isogloss should be crucial to its delineation. [...] The Low Saxon dialects are sometimes referred to collectively as West Low German (Westniederdeutsch) [...]

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
• Buttonwood Agreement
• Chequers agreement
• choice of court agreement
• choice of forum agreement
• collective agreement
• collective-bargaining agreement
• concession agreement
• conditional agreement
• contractual 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
• midnuptial agreement
• 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

• 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: করার (bn) (korar)
• 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)

• Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם (he) m (heském), הַסְכָּמָה f (haskamá)
• Hindi: इक़रार m (iqrār)
• 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: sponsio 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)
• Maori: whakaaetanga, kirimana
• Mirandese: acuordo m
• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norman: accord m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

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

• Persian: پیمان (fa) (peymân), توافق (fa) (tavâfoq)
• 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

  Roman: 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)
• 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

• 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)
• 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: توافق (fa) (tavâfoq)
• 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

  Roman: saglasnost f

• Slovene: soglasje n
• Spanish: acuerdo (es) m
• Swahili: maagano (sw)
• Swedish: enighet (sv) c, överensstämmelse (sv) c
• Tok Pisin: agrimen
• 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: সামঞ্জস্য (bn) (śamonjosśo)
• Bulgarian: до́говор (bg) m (dógovor)
• Burmese: စာချုပ် (my) (cahkyup), ကတိ (my) (ka.ti.)
• Catalan: contracte (ca) m, conveni (ca) m, acord (ca) m
• Chinese:

  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)

• Hebrew: הֶסְכֵּם (he) m (heském)
• Hindi: अनुबंध (hi) m (anubandh), समझौता (hi) m (samjhautā), सन्धि (hi) f (sandhi)
• Hungarian: megállapodás (hu), megegyezés (hu)
• 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)
• Maori: kupu whakaae
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гэрээ (mn) (geree)

  Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ (ger-e)

• Navajo: ahaʼdeetʼaah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avtale (no) m

• Occitan: acòrdi (oc) m
• Pashto: شرطنامه (ps) f (šartnāmá), پيمان (ps) m (paymãn)
• Persian: پیمان (fa) (peymân), توافق (fa) (tavâfoq), مقاوله (fa) (moqâvale)
• 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

  Roman: 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
• Tajik: созишнома (sozišnoma), тавофуқ (tavofuq), шартнома (šartnoma), аҳднома (ahdnoma), паймон (paymon)
• 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)
• Turkmen: şertnama
• Ukrainian: уго́да f (uhóda), до́говір m (dóhovir) умо́ва (uk) f (umóva)
• Urdu: اقرارنامه (iqrār-nāma)
• Uyghur: شەرتنامە (shertname)
• Uzbek: shartnoma (uz), ahdnoma (uz), ahd (uz)
• Vietnamese: hiệp định (vi), hợp đồng (vi)
• Walloon: acoird (wa) m
• Welsh: cytundeb (cy) m, cyfamod m

grammatical agreement

• 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 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

• consent, approval

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