| 单词 | agreement |
| 释义 | agreement (once / 132 pages) n An agreement is made when two parties agree to something. So, for example, a mother might make an agreement with her son not to kiss him in public because, after kindergarten, well, that's just not cool. If people's opinions are in accord, or match one another, then they are in agreement. If a teacher assigns a ten-page paper due the next day, the students would be in agreement that the assignment was unfair. A written or verbal contract can also be called an agreement. An agreement to deliver an article a month for a publication could not be broken simply because you have writer's block. WORD FAMILYagreement: agreements+/agree: agreeable, agreed, agreeed, agreeing, agreement, agrees, disagree/agreeability: agreeabilities/agreeable: agreeability, agreeableness, agreeabler, agreeablest, agreeably, disagreeable/agreeableness: agreeablenesses/disagree: disagreed, disagreeing, disagreement, disagrees/disagreeable: disagreeableness, disagreeabler, disagreeablest, disagreeably/disagreeableness: disagreeablenesses/disagreement: disagreements USAGE EXAMPLESWomen’s national soccer team finally agrees to new collective bargaining agreement when U.S. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The historical society and the seller settled on an agreement of $175 to purchase the remaining diaries. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The Paris Agreement is really an outline; more promise than reality. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1n harmony of people's opinions, actions, or characters the two parties were in agreement Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper accord disagreement, dissension, dissonance a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters community, community of interests agreement as to goals concurrence, meeting of mindsa state of cooperation consensusagreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole sense of the meetinggeneral agreement reached by an assembled group unanimityeveryone being of one mind unisoncorresponding exactly social contractan implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection 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 2n compatibility of observations there was no agreement between theory and measurement Syn|Hypo|Hyper correspondence conformance, conformity correspondence in form or appearance justness, nicety, rightnessconformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety normalityconformity with the norm compatibility capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination 3n the verbal act of agreeing Ant|Hypo|Hyper disagreement the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing acquiescence, assent agreement with a statement or proposal to do something concurrence, concurrencyagreement of results or opinions accord, accordance, conformityconcurrence of opinion collusion, connivanceagreement on a secret plot accession, assentingagreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) subscriptionagreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name confirmation, ratificationmaking something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it concord, concordance, harmonyagreement of opinions endorsement, indorsement, second, secondmenta speech seconding a motion concessiona point conceded or yielded acceptance(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) conceding, concession, yieldingthe act of conceding or yielding cahootcollusion sopa concession given to mollify or placate judicial admission, stipulation(law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record takeawaya concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures wage concessionan agreement to raise wages speech act the use of language to perform some act 4n the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper understanding Articles of Confederation a written agreement ratified in 1781 by the thirteen original states; it provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens Peace of Westphaliathe peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 Chemical Weapons Conventiona global treaty banning the production or acquisition or stockpiling or transfer or use of chemical weapons Geneva Conventionan agreement first drawn up in Geneva in 1864 and later revised concerning the treatment of captured and wounded military personnel and civilians in wartime Lateran Treatythe agreement signed in the Lateran Palace in 1929 by Italy and the Holy See which recognized the Vatican City as a sovereign and independent papal state North Atlantic Treatythe treaty signed in 1949 by 12 countries that established NATO SALT Ithe first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT IIthe second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty of Versaillesthe treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans Missouri Compromisean agreement in 1820 between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States concerning the extension of slavery into new territories confederacy, conspiracy a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act fair-trade agreementan 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 covenant(Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return unilateral contracta one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise) sale, sales agreementan 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) bargain, dealan agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each working agreementan informal agreement to work together gentlemen's agreementa personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding written agreementa legal document summarizing the agreement between parties submissionan agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter entente, entente cordialea friendly understanding between political powers oral contractan 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 reservationthe written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance settlementa conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it severance agreementan agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave suicide pactan agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time contracta binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law conspiracy of silencea conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event conditional salea sale in which the buyer receives title to the property only upon the performance of some condition (usually the full payment of the purchase price) execution sale, forced sale, judicial sale, sheriff's salea sale of property by the sheriff under authority of a court's writ of execution in order satisfy an unpaid obligation submissiona legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter compact, concordat, covenanta signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action indentureformal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt obligationa legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply accord, pact, treatya written agreement between two states or sovereigns accommodationa settlement of differences conclusiona final settlement out-of-court settlementresolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court property settlement(matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage accord and satisfactionthe settlement of a debt by paying less than the amount demanded in exchange for extinguishing the debt golden handshakea lucrative severance agreement offered to an employee (usually as an incentive to retire) escrowa written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition statement a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc 5n the thing arranged or agreed to Syn|Hypo|Hyper arrangement collusion secret agreement prearrangementsomething arranged in advance reservationsomething reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.) planning, preparation, provision the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening 6n in grammar, the correspondence between two words Syn|Hypo|Hyper concord number agreement agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) person agreementagreement in person between pronouns and verbs case agreementagreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction gender agreementagreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction grammatical relation a linguistic relation established by grammar |
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