Agreement may refer to:
Agreements between people and organizations
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Gentlemen's agreement
A gentlemen's agreement, or gentleman's agreement, is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties. It is typically oral, but it may be written or simply understood as part of an unspoken agreement by convention or th ...
, not enforceable by law
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Trade agreement
A trade agreement (also known as trade pact) is a wide-ranging taxes, tariff and trade treaty that often includes investment guarantees. It exists when two or more countries agree on terms that help them trade with each other. The most common tr ...
, between countries
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Consensus, a decision-making process
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Contract
A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to tran ...
, enforceable in a court of law
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Meeting of the minds
Meeting of the minds (also referred to as mutual agreement, mutual assent or ''consensus ad idem'') is a phrase in contract law used to describe the intentions of the parties forming the contract. In particular, it refers to the situation where t ...
(a.k.a. mutual agreement), a common understanding in the formation of a contract
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Pact
A pact, from Latin ''pactum'' ("something agreed upon"), is a formal agreement between two or more parties. In international relations, pacts are usually between two or more sovereign states. In domestic politics, pacts are usually between two or ...
, convention, or
treaty
A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law. It is usually made by and between sovereign states, but can include international organizations
An international organization or international o ...
between nations, sub-national entities, organizations, corporations
Arts and media
*''Agreement'', a 1978 book of poetry by
Peter Seaton
Peter Seaton (December 16, 1942 – May 18, 2010) was an American poet associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. During the opening and middle years of Language poetry many of his long prose poems were published, widely re ...
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''Agreement'' (film), a 1980 Bollywood film
Science and mathematics
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Agreement (linguistics) In linguistics, agreement or concord ( abbreviated ) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates. It is an instance of inflection, and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gende ...
or ''concord'', a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of another word
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Consistency
In classical deductive logic, a consistent theory is one that does not lead to a logical contradiction. The lack of contradiction can be defined in either semantic or syntactic terms. The semantic definition states that a theory is consistent ...
, logical agreement between two or more propositions
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Reliability (statistics)
In statistics and psychometrics, reliability is the overall consistency of a measure. A measure is said to have a high reliability if it produces similar results under consistent conditions:"It is the characteristic of a set of test scores that ...
in the sense of, for example, inter-rater agreement
Other uses
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Agreement (political party)
The Agreement ( pl, Porozumienie), formally known as Jarosław Gowin's Agreement ( pl, Porozumienie Jarosława Gowina), is a centre-right political party in Poland.
It was founded in November 2017, led by former Deputy Prime Minister and Mini ...
, a Polish political party
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Operation Agreement
Operation Agreement was a ground and amphibious operation carried out by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces on Axis-held Tobruk from 13 to 14 September 1942, during the Second World War. A Special Interrogation Group party, fluent in Ger ...
, a British 1942 military operation during the Western Desert Campaign
See also
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Disagreement
A disagreement is the absence of consensus or consent. It can take the form of dissent or controversy
Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. The word wa ...
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Agrément
Agrément, in international affairs, is the agreement by a state to receive members of a diplomatic mission from a foreign country.
In this procedure, the posting state formally requests consent, via a ''demande d'agréation'', from the receiving ...
, an agreement by a state to receive members of a diplomatic mission
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