Word Finder - agreement

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An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

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to enter an agreement;  the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;  he nodded his agreement.

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

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The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

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A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

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(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.

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(chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.

But he just murmured an agreement as they returned to their room.

At first she nodded agreement, and then a cold feeling clutched at her heart.

He needed her agreement to try, even if they weren't ready yet.

Betsy and I were in agreement on having a family.

I was surprised when the others nodded in agreement, fortifying me to continue.

He murmured an agreement.

It's a cash sale – just as soon as we come to an agreement on the price.

Perhaps enough of the euphoria of the prior day's success remained that, surprisingly, a reluctant agreement was reached.

I nodded in agreement.

I also told her that I wasn't in agreement with your terms.

He nodded in agreement and she continued, Being a flannel gal is nice, too.

Dean nodded his head in agreement, happy Cynthia's mood had mellowed.

Romas had decreed that the man Kiera chose would have to have her agreement to be mated.

He was probably looking for some concrete sign that she was in agreement with him.

It was found impossible to arrive at an agreement.

There is general agreement as to the division of the Orthoptera into three sub-orders or tribes.

The gentleman's agreement between them had been tested and proven solid.

Cynthia acknowledged her reluctant agreement with a deep sigh and no further conversation as Dean extinguished the light.

There was a consensual agreement to stop the fight.

Lenin was in agreement with these views for some time.

The AngloFrench agreement of 1904 left England in undisputed mastery.

In regard to the poem which forms the third and closing chapter of the present book of Habakkuk, there is much more general agreement.

In the latter he advocated the unlimited coinage of silver, irrespective of international agreement, at a ratio of 16 to 1, a policy with which his name was afterwards most prominently associated.

Taylor Jones showed in 1897 that only a small proportion of the contraction exhibited by a nickel wire when magnetized could be accounted for on Kirchhoff's theory from the observed effects of pulling stress upon magnetization; and in a more extended series of observations Nagaoka and Honda found wide quantitative divergences between the results of experiment and calculation, though in nearly all cases there was agreement as to quality.

Nagaoka and Honda have succeeded in showing that the observed relations between twist and magnetization are in qualitative agreement with an extension of Kirchhoff's theory of magnetostriction.

As to whether the magnetized plate becomes positive or negative to the other, different experimenters are not in agreement.

Perhaps the most important general agreement of Scorpio compared with Limulus and the Eurypterines is the division of the body into the three regions (or tagmata) - prosoma, mesosoma and metasoma - each consisting of six segments, the prosoma having leg-like appendages, the mesosoma having foliaceous appendages, and the metasoma being destitute of appendages.

The central nervous systems of Limulus and of Scorpio present closer agreement in structure than can be found when a Crustacean is compared with either.

In microscopic structure they all present the closest agreement with one another.

This is a very definite and remarkable agreement, since such a reticular gonocoel is not found in Crustacea (except in the male Apus).

This is a microscopic point of agreement, but is none the less significant.

We are compelled to take a similar view of the agreement between the tracheal air-tubes of Arachnida and other tracheate Arthropods.

The general scheme and some of the details have been brought by the writer into agreement with the views maintained in this article.

The Baltic volunteers were defeated by the Bolsheviks on Dec. 29 at Hintzenberg; and since the agreement made on Dec. 29 by Ulmanis with the German representative, the Socialist Winnig, did not attract a sufficient number of volunteers from Germany for the formation of an Iron Div., Riga fell on Jan.

The German volunteers, forming about 15%, had to evacuate according to the armistice of July 3, losing the advantages of the Dec. agreement.

Parliament (which re-assembled on the 7th of May) and the heads of the army came to an agreement to effect his dismissal; and in the subsequent events Richard appears to have played a purely passive part, refusing to make any attempt to keep his power or to forward a restoration of the monarchy.

In 1874 he was sent to Athens by the German government, and concluded an agreement by which the excavations at Olympia were entrusted exclusively to Germany.

Of this area nearly all the province of Urundi and the greater part of Ruanda were permanently assigned to Belgium by an Anglo-Belgian agreement of Sept.

The agreement made Kivu entirely a Belgian lake.

Ambassadors, one of whom was Savonarola, were sent to treat with the French king, but no agreement was arrived at until Charles entered Florence on the 17th of November at the head of 12,000 men.

It shows a close agreement with that of Caryophyllaeus.

Caspar Koolhaes, the heroic minister of Leiden - its first lecturer, too, in divinity - pleaded against a too rigid uniformity, for such an agreement on "fundamentals" as had allowed Reformed, Lutherans and Anabaptists to unite.

Neither side, however, was prepared to take the first steps to carry out the agreement, and Innocent, who had ventured back to Rome, began to feel unsafe in the city, where the imperial partisans had the ascendancy.

It is almost impossible to make any statement in regard to them which will meet with general agreement.

He began to take an active part in the movement for separate statehood for Kentucky, and in 1787 he entered into an irregular commercial agreement with the Spanish officials of Louisiana.

It is bound to purchase all tobacco not exported at prices to be agreed between itself and the cultivators; if no agreement can be arrived at, the price is fixed by experts.

On the 22nd of April the French, Russian and British ministers came to an agreement on the question of the holy places; with the result that, when the question of protectorate was raised, Menshikov found himself opposed by the ambassadors of all the other powers.

The general reform on which the council had failed to come to an understanding had to be adjourned, and the council contented itself with promulgating, on the 9th of October 1417, the only reforming decrees on which an agreement could be reached.

To this Napoleon consented, but hardly had the agreement been signed than he succeeded in introducing a number of individual French soldiers into the fortress, who began rioting with the Austrian soldiery.

The second part of the act provides that if any person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, for any sum of money, reward, gift, profit or benefit, directly or indirectly, or for or by reason of any promise, agreement, grant, bond, covenant or other assurances.