Noun: agreement
| Singular | agreement |
| Plural | agreements |
Sample Sentences
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to enter an agreement
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The UK and US negotiators were nearing agreement.
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He nodded his agreement.
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Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[…]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements. [2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:]
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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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Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, 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 ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject. [1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:]
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Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...]. [1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:]
Nouns inflected like agreement
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Old French a-
7. Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
9. Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
10. Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
11. Latin grātus
12. Latin grātumder.
13. Old French gré
14. Old French agreer
15. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
16. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
17. Proto-Italic *-mentom
18. Latin -mentum
19. Old French -ment
20. Old French agrementbor.
21. Middle English agrement
22. English agreement
23. From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment. See: Middle English Nouns '
agrement'.