AGREEMENT

Agreement

Agreement or concord happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category "agree" between varied words or parts of the sentence.

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agreement

Noun

  1. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
  2. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
  3. A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
  4. 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.
  5. An agreeable quality.


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