English noun: agreement | |||
1. | agreement (communication) the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises | ||
Samples | They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business. There was an understanding between management and the workers. | ||
Synonyms | understanding | ||
Broader (hypernym) | statement | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | bargain, confederacy, conspiracy, covenant, deal, entente, entente cordiale, fair-trade agreement, gentlemen's agreement, oral contract, reservation, sale, sales agreement, settlement, severance agreement, submission, suicide pact, unilateral contract, working agreement, written agreement | ||
Part holonym | condition, term | ||
2. | agreement (attribute) compatibility of observations | ||
Samples | There was no agreement between theory and measurement. The results of two tests were in correspondence. | ||
Synonyms | correspondence | ||
Broader (hypernym) | compatibility | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | conformance, conformity | ||
3. | agreement (state) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | ||
Samples | The two parties were in agreement. | ||
Synonyms | accord | ||
Broader (hypernym) | concord, concordance, harmony | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | community, community of interests, concurrence, consensus, meeting of minds, sense of the meeting, social contract, unanimity, unison | ||
Antonyms | disagreement, dissonance, dissension | ||
4. | agreement (cognition) the thing arranged or agreed to | ||
Samples | They made arrangements to meet in Chicago. | ||
Synonyms | arrangement | ||
Broader (hypernym) | planning, preparation, provision | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | collusion, prearrangement | ||
5. | agreement the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | ||
Synonyms | concord | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical relation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | case agreement, gender agreement, number agreement, person agreement | ||
6. | agreement (communication) the verbal act of agreeing | ||
Broader (hypernym) | speech act | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | accession, accord, accordance, acquiescence, assent, assenting, collusion, concession, concord, concordance, concurrence, concurrency, confirmation, conformity, connivance, endorsement, harmony, indorsement, ratification, second, secondment, subscription | ||
Antonyms | disagreement | ||