pactnoun [ C ]
uk/pækt/us/pækt/C2 a formal agreement between two people or groups of people:
The United States and Canada have signed a free-trade pact.
[ + to infinitive ] Big drug companies plan to form a pact with the National Institutes of Health to share information.
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- a non-aggression pact
- The Nazi-Soviet pact carved up the Baltic states in 1939.
- The leader of the religious sect and 30 of his followers killed themselves in a suicide pact last year.
- They made a pact never to tell anyone about the accident.
- Management have formed a pact with the unions.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making & breaking promises & commitments
- betray
- broken
- commit
- cross my heart (and hope to die) idiom
- deliver
- fink
- fink out
- go back on sth
- guarantee
- New Year's resolution
- promise sb the earth/moon idiom
- promises, promises! idiom
- redeem
- resolution
- scout
- sworn
- vouch
- warrant
- warranty
- welsh
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