agreeing

B1 · Intermediate

v. accepting a suggestion or promising to do something.

v. consenting to a proposal, request, or specific course of action.

“By agreeing to the new rules, the players could start the game.”

“By agreeing to the terms of the settlement, the corporation avoided a lengthy and potentially damaging public trial.”

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Formal

n. the process or act of reaching an agreement.

n. the gerundial act of reaching a state of harmony or formal consensus.

“The agreeing of the final contract took much longer than expected.”

“The formal agreeing of the treaty was delayed by several hours as diplomats argued over the precise phrasing of the preamble.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate

v. matching another thing or being consistent with it.

v. being consistent with or corresponding to another fact or grammatical element.

“The witness's story was not agreeing with the evidence found by the police.”

“The data points were not agreeing with the initial hypothesis, forcing the research team to re-evaluate their entire methodology.”