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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Agreement \A*gree"ment\, n. [Cf. F. agr['e]ment.] 1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? --2 Cor. vi 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. --Locke. 2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. 3. (Law) a A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract. b The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. --Abbott. Brande & C. Syn: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: agreement n 1: 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" [syn: {understanding}] 2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and measurment"; "the results of two tests were in correspondence" [syn: {correspondence}] 3: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in accord" [syn: {accord}] [ant: {disagreement}] 4: the thing arranged or agreed to [syn: {arrangement}] 5: the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations [syn: {concord}] 6: the verbal act of agreeing [ant: {disagreement}]
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