Definition of Agreement

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Agreement

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.

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Agreement Quotations

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
William Glasser

I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy Carter

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
Leon Trotsky

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Agreement Translations

agreement in Afrikaans is afspraak
agreement in Danish is enighed, akkord, samtykke
agreement in Dutch is overeenstemming, samenklank
agreement in German is Abkommen, Vertrag, Abkommen {n}
agreement in Italian is accordo
agreement in Latin is placitum, pactum, compositio, consensio, lex legis
agreement in Norwegian is avtale
agreement in Portuguese is acordo
agreement in Spanish is convenio, acomodamiento, pacto, el acuerdo

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