agreementnoun
uk/əˈɡriː.mənt/us/əˈɡriː.mənt/agreement noun (SAME OPINION)
B2 [ U ] the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or accept something:
The whole family was in agreement with her about/on what they should do.
If the three parties cannot reach agreement now, there will be a civil war.
I don't think you'll ever get Tony's agreement to these proposals.
[ + that ] There's widespread agreement that the law should be changed.
B2 [ C ] a decision or arrangement, often formal and written, between two or more groups or people:
The dispute was settled by an agreement that satisfied both sides.
The government has entered into/signed an international arms control agreement.
They have broken (the terms of) the agreement on human rights.
Finally the two sides have reached an agreement.
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- The two countries signed an agreement to reduce their nuclear armouries.
- A murmur of agreement came from the crowd.
- The agreement was reached after a series of difficult negotiations.
- Russia has just drawn up a trade agreement with Norway.
- No agreement has yet been reached and the negotiations are still ongoing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accepting & agreeing
- accept
- accredited
- assent
- be ruled by sb idiom
- buy-in
- conclude
- countenance
- court
- embrace
- gauntlet
- leap
- middle ground
- mustn't grumble idiom
- pounce
- reach
- respect
- signatory
- swallow
- take sb up on sth
- unquestioning
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agreement noun (GRAMMAR)
[ U ] specialized language the situation in which two words have the same grammatical form. For example, the words are both singular or plural, masculine or feminine, etc.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- attributive
- collocate
- comparative
- declension
- decline
- dependent clause
- grammar
- grammarian
- grammatical
- independent clause
- indirect object
- inflect
- interrogative
- modifier
- plurality
- qualify
- reflexive
- superlative
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