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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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warranty
English
Etymology
From Old French warrantie, Old Northern French variant of Old French guarantie (Modern French garantie). Doublet of guarantee and guaranty. More at warrant.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: wôr'?nti, IPA(key): /?w??.?n.ti/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?w?.??n.ti/
Noun
warranty (countable and uncountable, plural warranties)
- (countable) A guarantee that a certain outcome or obligation will be fulfilled; security.
- 1691, John Locke, Some Considerations on the consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising of the Value of Money, Thomas Davison, Whitefriars (1823), page 88:
- Those who have had the care and government of politic societies introduced coinage, as a remedy of those two inconveniences. The stamp was a warranty of the public, that, under such a denomination, they should receive a piece of such a weight, and such a fineness; […]
- 1691, John Locke, Some Considerations on the consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising of the Value of Money, Thomas Davison, Whitefriars (1823), page 88:
- (countable, law, real estate, obsolete) An obsolete legal agreement that was a real covenant and ran with the land, whereby the grantor and his heirs of a piece of real estate held in freehold were required to officially guarantee their claim and plead one’s case for the title. If evicted by someone with a superior claim (paramount title) they were also required to hand over other real estate of equal value in recompense. It has now been replaced by personal covenants and the covenant of warranty.
- (law, countable, real estate) A covenant, also called the covenant of warranty, whereby the grantor assures the grantee that he or she not be subject to the claims of someone with a paramount title, thereby guaranteeing the status of the title that is being conveyed.
- (countable, law) A legal agreement, either written or oral (an expressed warranty) or implied through the actions of the buyer and seller (an implied warranty), which states that the goods or property in question will be in exactly the same state as promised, such as in a sale of an item or piece of real estate.
- (countable) A written guarantee, usually over a fixed period, provided to someone who buys a product or item, which states that repairs will be provided free of charge in case of damage or a fault.
- I took out an extended warranty on my television for five years at a cost of $100.
- I made sure to check the terms of my warranty for my computer to ensure I was covered in case it broke down.
- It's always a good idea to get a good warranty on anything you buy that you think may break down.
- (countable, insurance law) A stipulation of an insurance policy made by an insuree, guaranteeing that the facts of the policy are true and the insurance risk is as stated, which if not fulfilled renders the policy void.
- (uncountable, rare) Justification or mandate to do something, especially in terms of one’s personal conduct.
- 1683, John Kettlewell, An Help and Exhortation to Worthy Communicating, 379:
- […] Since, if they disobey any precept, that is no excuse to us, nor gives us any warranty for companies fake to disobey likewise.
- 1683, John Kettlewell, An Help and Exhortation to Worthy Communicating, 379:
Translations
Verb
warranty (third-person singular simple present warranties, present participle warrantying, simple past and past participle warrantied)
- To warrant; to guarantee.
References
- warranty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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