Agreementnoun
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
âto enter an agreement;â; âthe UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;â; âhe nodded his agreement.â;
Appointmentnoun
The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
âHis appointment was deemed suitableâ;
Agreementnoun
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
âThe results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.â;
Appointmentnoun
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
âthe appointment of treasurerâ;
Agreementnoun
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Appointmentnoun
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
Agreementnoun
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.
Appointmentnoun
An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
âThey made an appointment to meet at six.â; âI'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment.â;
Agreementnoun
An agreeable quality.
Appointmentnoun
(religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
âTo submit to the divine appointments.â;
Agreementnoun
State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
âWhat agreement hath the temple of God with idols ?â; âExpansion and duration have this further agreement.â;
Appointmentnoun
(law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Agreementnoun
Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
Appointmentnoun
(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
Agreementnoun
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
Appointmentnoun
Equipment, furniture.
Agreementnoun
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
âthey had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's businessâ; âthere was an understanding between management and the workersâ;
Appointmentnoun
(US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
âto have an appointmentâ;
Agreementnoun
compatibility of observations;
âthere was no agreement between theory and measurementâ; âthe results of two tests were in correspondenceâ;
Appointmentnoun
(obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.
Agreementnoun
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
âthe two parties were in agreementâ;
Appointmentnoun
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
Agreementnoun
the thing arranged or agreed to;
âthey made arrangements to meet in Chicagoâ;
Appointmentnoun
The state of being appointed to som service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
Agreementnoun
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
Appointmentnoun
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
Agreementnoun
the verbal act of agreeing
Appointmentnoun
Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
âAccording to the appointment of the priests.â;
Agreementnoun
harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
âthe governments failed to reach agreementâ; âthe two officers nodded in agreementâ;
Appointmentnoun
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Agreementnoun
a negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement between parties as to a course of action
âa verbal agreement to sellâ; âa trade agreementâ;
Appointmentnoun
Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
âThe cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments.â; âI'll prove it in my shackles, with these handsVoid of appointment, that thou liest.â;
Agreementnoun
the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency
âagreement between experimental observations and theoryâ;
Appointmentnoun
An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; - properly only in the plural.
âAn expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary.â;
Agreementnoun
the condition of having the same number, gender, case, and/or person as another word.
Appointmentnoun
A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
Appointmentnoun
the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
âthe appointment had to be approved by the whole committeeâ;
Appointmentnoun
a meeting arranged in advance;
âshe asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a dateâ;
Appointmentnoun
(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
Appointmentnoun
a person who is appointed to a job or position
Appointmentnoun
the job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed;
âhe applied for an appointment in the treasuryâ;
Appointmentnoun
(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment;
âshe allocated part of the trust to her church by appointmentâ;