agreement
agreement Lexical Profile
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• noun
Harmony or accordance in opinion, feeling, or position between two or more parties.
"After hours of discussion, the committee finally reached complete agreement on the new budget."
A negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement, contract, or treaty between parties as to a course of action.
"Both countries signed a bilateral trade agreement to reduce tariffs on agricultural imports."
In grammar, the correspondence in form between different words in a sentence to indicate number, person, gender, or case.
"Students learning a second language often struggle with subject-verb agreement in complex clauses."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French 'agrement', derived from 'agreer' ('to please' or 'to consent'), which ultimately traces back to the Latin phrase 'ad gratum', meaning 'to pleasure' or 'favorably'.