different between goodwill vs agreement

English

Etymology

From Middle English *goodwille, good wille (“goodwill”), perhaps from Old English *g?dwille (“goodwill”); compare Old English g?dwillende (“well-pleased”); also Scots guidwilly, guidwillie (“displaying goodwill”), equivalent to good +? will. Cognate with Scots guidwill (“goodwill”), Middle Low German g?twille (“goodwill”), Old High German guotwilligi (“goodwill”), Old Danish godvilje (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvilji, góðvili (“goodwill”), Icelandic góðvild (“goodness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??d?w?l/

Noun

goodwill (usually uncountable, plural goodwills)

1. A favorably disposed attitude toward someone or something.
   • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech

     We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

2. (accounting) The value of a business entity not directly attributable to its tangible assets and liabilities. This value derives from factors such as consumer loyalty to the brand.
3. (business) A concept used to refer to the ability of an individual or business to exert influence within a community, club, market or another type of group, without having to resort to the use of an asset (such as money or property), either directly or by the creation of a lien.

Antonyms

• ill will

Translations

See also

• bona fides

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English goodwill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ut.??l/, [??ut.??l], [??ud.w?l]
• Hyphenation: good?will

Noun

goodwill m (uncountable)

1. goodwill

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English goodwill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??udwil/, [??udwil]

Noun

goodwill

1. goodwill (intangible business value)

Declension

Synonyms

• liikearvo

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