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agreement
English
Etymology
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.
Morphologically agree +? -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????i?m?nt/
Noun
agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":
Synonyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
- (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
- (A legally binding contract): settlement
- (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
- (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness
Coordinate terms
- (linguistics, grammar): rection
Hyponyms
- (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- consent, approval
See also
- consensus
- agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English agreement.
Noun
agreement m (invariable)
- agreement (pact, accord)
Anagrams
- magnerete
- mangerete
Middle English
Noun
agreement
- Alternative form of agrement
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conformity
English
Etymology
From Middle French conformité
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?f??m?ti/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?f??m?ti/
- Hyphenation: con?for?mi?ty
Noun
conformity (countable and uncountable, plural conformities)
- The state of things being similar or identical.
- Synonyms: homogeneity, uniformity; see also Thesaurus:uniformity
- A point of resemblance; a similarity.
- The state of being conforming, of complying with a set of rules, with a norm or standard.
- Synonyms: compliance, conformance; see also Thesaurus:conformity
- The ideology of adhering to one standard or social uniformity.
Usage notes
- Sometimes used interchangeably with conformation.
Antonyms
- nonconformity
Related terms
- conform
- conformance
- conformism
Derived terms
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “conformity”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
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