Definition of "agreement" in English

noun

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

   • to enter an agreement
   • The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
   • He nodded his agreement.

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

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

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.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.