NUMBER AGREEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does number agreement mean? 

• NUMBER AGREEMENT (noun)
  The noun NUMBER AGREEMENT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: NUMBER AGREEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUMBER AGREEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

agreement; concord (the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations)