AGREEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agreement mean? 

• AGREEMENT (noun)
  The noun AGREEMENT has 6 senses:

1. the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

2. compatibility of observations

3. harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

4. the thing arranged or agreed to

5. the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

6. the verbal act of agreeing

  Familiarity information: AGREEMENT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGREEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

agreement; understanding

Context example:

there was an understanding between management and the workers

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Meronyms (parts of "agreement"):

condition; strings; term ((usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

submission (an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter)

suicide pact (an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time)

severance agreement (an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave)

settlement (a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it)

reservation (the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance)

oral contract (an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation)

entente; entente cordiale (a friendly understanding between political powers)

written agreement (a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties)

gentlemen's agreement (a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding)

working agreement (an informal agreement to work together)

bargain; deal (an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each)

sale; sales agreement (an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer))

unilateral contract (a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise))

covenant ((Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return)

fair-trade agreement (an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer)

confederacy; conspiracy (a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act)

Derivation:

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Compatibility of observations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

agreement; correspondence

Context example:

the results of two tests were in correspondence

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

compatibility (capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

conformance; conformity (correspondence in form or appearance)

Derivation:

agree (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

accord; agreement

Context example:

the two parties were in agreement

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

concord; concordance; harmony (a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

community; community of interests (agreement as to goals)

concurrence; meeting of minds (a state of cooperation)

consensus (agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole)

sense of the meeting (general agreement reached by an assembled group)

unanimity (everyone being of one mind)

unison (corresponding exactly)

social contract (an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection)

Antonym:

disagreement (a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters)

Derivation:

agree (achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The thing arranged or agreed to

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

agreement; arrangement

Context example:

they made arrangements to meet in Chicago

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

planning; preparation; provision (the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

collusion (secret agreement)

prearrangement (something arranged in advance)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

agreement; concord

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

number agreement (agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify))

person agreement (agreement in person between pronouns and verbs)

case agreement (agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction)

gender agreement (agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction)

Derivation:

agree (show grammatical agreement)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The verbal act of agreeing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("agreement" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agreement"):

concurrence; concurrency (agreement of results or opinions)

concession (a point conceded or yielded)

endorsement; indorsement; second; secondment (a speech seconding a motion)

concord; concordance; harmony (agreement of opinions)

confirmation; ratification (making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it)

subscription (agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name)

accession; assenting (agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly))

collusion; connivance (agreement on a secret plot)

accord; accordance; conformity (concurrence of opinion)

acquiescence; assent (agreement with a statement or proposal to do something)

Antonym:

disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)

Derivation:

agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)

agree (be in accord; be in agreement)

agree (achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose)

 Context examples 

AHRQ uses mechanisms of grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to carry out research projects, demonstrations, evaluations, and knowledge dissemination.

(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCI Thesaurus)

In cancer care, an advanced practice nurse may manage the primary care of patients and their families, based on a practice agreement with a doctor.

(Advanced practice nurse, NCI Dictionary)

A subjective answer of weak agreement.

(A little bit, NCI Thesaurus)

In cancer care, an APN may manage the primary care of patients and their families, based on a practice agreement with a doctor.

(APN, NCI Dictionary)

A document containing a formal acceptance as satisfactory, and/or official agreement or permission.

(Approval Document, NCI Thesaurus)

A program set up to establish cooperative agreements for Clinical Trials of Cancer Therapy with Biological Response Modifiers (CATBRMs) and to develop novel approaches for such therapy.

(Biological Response Modifiers Program, NCI Thesaurus)

Contents, interobserver agreement, and physiologic correlates of two new clinical indexes.

(Baseline Dyspnea Index Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Agreement with a statement or proposal to do something.

(Assent, NCI Thesaurus)

Additionally, NSF supported the research through its funding of NRAO, which is operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.

(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)

Wait a bit—form your final agreement on March 11, when Jupiter will signal the Sun, your ruling star, for this would be a glorious day for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)