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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 | ||
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