| agreement | |
| 1. n. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. | |
| to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. (legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. | |
| 4. n. (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. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality. | |
