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Agreement vs. Acceptance — What's the Difference?

Agreement vs. Acceptance — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Agreement and Acceptance

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Agreement

Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
The governments failed to reach agreement
The two officers nodded in agreement

Acceptance

Acceptance in human psychology is a person's assent to the reality of a situation, recognizing a process or condition (often a negative or uncomfortable situation) without attempting to change it or protest it. The concept is close in meaning to acquiescence, derived from the Latin acquiēscere (to find rest in).

Agreement

The act of agreeing
When did the agreement take place?.

Acceptance

The action of consenting to receive or undertake something offered
Charges involving the acceptance of bribes

Agreement

Harmony of opinion; accord
Since we are all in agreement, let's proceed.
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Acceptance

The process or fact of being received as adequate, valid, or suitable
You must wait for acceptance into the village

Agreement

An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.

Acceptance

Agreement with or belief in an idea or explanation
Acceptance of the teaching of the Church

Agreement

A properly executed and legally binding contract.

Acceptance

The act of taking something offered
The acceptance of a new job.

Agreement

The writing or document embodying this contract.

Acceptance

The act of admitting to a group or organization
Acceptance of new members into the club.

Agreement

(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.

Acceptance

A notification that someone or something has been accepted
Received an acceptance from her first-choice college.

Agreement

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
To enter an agreement;
The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;
He nodded his agreement.

Acceptance

Favorable reception; approval
Acceptance of seat belts among the public has greatly reduced injuries in car accidents.

Agreement

(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.

Acceptance

Belief in something; agreement
Acceptance of the new theory has been slow.

Agreement

A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

Acceptance

A formal indication by a debtor of willingness to pay a draft or bill of exchange.

Agreement

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.

Acceptance

An instrument so accepted, especially a bankers' acceptance.

Agreement

An agreeable quality.

Acceptance

(Law) The demonstration of agreement with the terms and conditions of another's offer so that the offer becomes a contract between the two parties.

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.
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?
Expansion and duration have this further agreement.

Acceptance

(uncountable) The act of accepting; the receiving of something offered, with acquiescence, approbation, or satisfaction; especially, favourable reception; approval.
The acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.

Agreement

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

Acceptance

(countable) An instance of that act.

Agreement

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

Acceptance

Belief in something; agreement, assent.

Agreement

The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
They had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business
There was an understanding between management and the workers

Acceptance

The state of being accepted.

Agreement

Compatibility of observations;
There was no agreement between theory and measurement
The results of two tests were in correspondence

Acceptance

The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.

Agreement

Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
The two parties were in agreement

Acceptance

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance; the bill of exchange itself when accepted.

Agreement

The thing arranged or agreed to;
They made arrangements to meet in Chicago

Acceptance

(law) An agreeing to the action, proposals, or terms of another by some act which results in the conclusion of a legally binding contract; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking of possession of a thing as owner.

Agreement

The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations

Acceptance

The act of an authorized representative of the government by which the government assents to ownership of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.

Agreement

The verbal act of agreeing

Acceptance

A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.

Acceptance

(optics) etendue.

Acceptance

The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.

Acceptance

State of being accepted; acceptableness.

Acceptance

An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.

Acceptance

An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

Acceptance

An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.

Acceptance

Meaning; acceptation.

Acceptance

The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true;
He gave credence to the gossip
Acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for 200 years

Acceptance

The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception;
Its adoption by society
The proposal found wide acceptance

Acceptance

The state of being acceptable and accepted;
Torn jeans received no acceptance at the country club

Acceptance

(contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract)

Acceptance

Banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank

Acceptance

A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations;
All people should practice toleration and live together in peace

Acceptance

The act of taking something that is offered;
Her acceptance of the gift encouraged him
He anticipated their acceptance of his offer

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