agreement
n. C / Un. a decision or promise made between two or more people. It can also mean having the same opinion as someone else.
n. the act of coming to a mutual arrangement or the state of sharing the same opinion. In linguistics, it refers to the formal relationship between words where they match in gender, number, case, or person.
We finally reached an agreement on the new price.
After hours of intense negotiation, both companies signed a formal agreement to share their research data.
The legal validity of the agreement depends entirely on whether both parties entered into the contract without any form of external pressure or coercion.
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 *-məntom 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.
Countable when referring to a specific document or contract; uncountable when referring to the general state of harmony or shared opinion.
I am agreement with youI agree with you / I am in agreement with youLearners often use 'agreement' as a verb or use the wrong prepositional structure; 'agree' is the verb, while 'agreement' requires the preposition 'in'.