different between endorsement vs agreement

English

Alternative forms

• endorsation (older American, Canadian)
• indorsation (Scotland)
• indorsement (older (American), Latinate)

Etymology

endorse +? -ment

Noun

endorsement (countable and uncountable, plural endorsements)

1. The act or quality of endorsing

   The association announced its endorsement of the policy.

   The bank required that cheque endorsement be witnessed by a cashier.

   Companies sometimes pay millions for product endorsement by celebrities.
2. An amendment or annotation to an insurance contract or other official document (such as a driving licence).

   Mr. Jones paid extra for the flood damage endorsement on his house insurance.

3. (aviation) An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.

   Once she obtained the endorsement of her night flying hours, Joanna was approved to take the pilot's examination.

4. (education, certification) Permission to carry out a specific skill or application in a field in which the practitioner already has a general licence.

   Wanted: Accredited teacher with Grade 12 mathematics endorsement.

   To transport gasoline, truckers must have a valid licence and the hazardous materials endorsement.

5. Sponsorship, in means of money, by a company, business or enterprise.

   After the Olympics, he was hoping to get an endorsement deal.

6. Support from an important, renowned figure of a media (celebrity, politics, sports, etc.), to get back up.

   I'm not sure whether an endorsement from Donald Trump will help or hurt.

Translations

See also

• allonge

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)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (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.

5. (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 [...].

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)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• magnerete
• mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement