Agreement
State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
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Agreement Quotations
Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Abraham Lincoln
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao Tzu
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
William Glasser
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.
Neale Donald Walsch
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement.
Robert Mugabe
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White
Agreement Translations
agreement in Afrikaans is afspraak
agreement in Danish is enighed, akkord, samtykke
agreement in Dutch is overeenstemming, samenklank
agreement in German is Abkommen, Vertrag, Abkommen {n}
agreement in Italian is accordo
agreement in Latin is placitum, pactum, compositio, consensio, lex legis
agreement in Norwegian is avtale
agreement in Portuguese is acordo
agreement in Spanish is convenio, acomodamiento, pacto, el acuerdo
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