agreement

Meaning

Noun

• An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
• A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
• A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
• 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.
• An agreeable quality.

Related

Similar words

• settlement
• concord, concordance
• amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Narrower meaning words

• conspiracy

Origin

• From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
• Morphologically agree + -ment