agreement

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. countable
    — to enter an agreement
  2. A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. uncountable
    — The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
  3. A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. uncountable
  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. uncountable
    — 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.
  5. An agreeable quality. countable,in-plural,obsolete,uncountable
    — Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

词形变化

agreements plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agreement as to succession agreement conferring jurisdiction agreement coorporation agreement in principle agreement on the choice of court antiagreement anti-agreement Aumann's agreement theorem Buttonwood Agreement Chequers agreement choice of court agreement choice of forum agreement collective agreement collective-bargaining agreement concession agreement conditional agreement contractual agreement deferred prosecution agreement definitive agreement disagreement double tax agreement end user license agreement end-user license agreement executive agreement financial agreement forum selection agreement framework agreement gentleman's agreement gentlemen's agreement heads of agreement in agreement interagreement interest rate agreement knock-for-knock agreement legal agreement letter agreement margin agreement memorandum of agreement midnuptial agreement misagreement monstrous agreement Multilateral Agreement nonagreement non-disclosure agreement nondisclosure agreement option agreement partnership agreement portmanteau agreement postnuptial agreement prenuptial agreement prenuptual agreement purchase agreement raging agreement sales agreement Schengen Agreement security agreement service agreement service level agreement settlement agreement shareholders' agreement single union agreement Smithsonian Agreement standby agreement standstill agreement strike an agreement with subordination agreement subscription agreement throughput agreement time agreement tolling agreement trade agreement tripartite agreement unagreement underwriting agreement working agreement works agreement

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥Htós
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos
Latin grātus
Latin grātumder.
Old French gré
Old French agreer
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -ment
Old French agrementbor.
Middle English agrement
English agreement
From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Doublet of agrément. Morphologically agree + -ment.
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