Hypertext Webster Gateway: "agreement"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Agreement \A*gree"ment\, n. [Cf. F. agr['e]ment.]
1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action,
or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good
agreement subsists among the members of the council.
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
--2 Cor. vi.
16.
Expansion and duration have this further agreement.
--Locke.
2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another
in gender, number, case, or person.
3. (Law)
(a) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be
done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual
understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a
contract.
(b) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal
promises. --Abbott. Brande & C.
Syn: Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
agreement
n 1: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
"they had an agreement that they would not interfere in
each other's business"; "there was an understanding
between management and the workers" [syn: {understanding}]
2: compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement
between theory and measurement"; "the results of two tests
were in correspondence" [syn: {correspondence}]
3: harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the
two parties were in accord" [syn: {accord}] [ant: {disagreement}]
4: the thing arranged or agreed to [syn: {arrangement}]
5: the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of
word relations [syn: {concord}]
6: the verbal act of agreeing [ant: {disagreement}]
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