Agreement vs. Appointment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Agreement and Appointment
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Agreement
Harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
The governments failed to reach agreement
The two officers nodded in agreement
Appointment
The act of appointing or designating someone for an office or position.
Agreement
The act of agreeing
When did the agreement take place?.
Appointment
The office or position to which one has been appointed.
Agreement
Harmony of opinion; accord
Since we are all in agreement, let's proceed.
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Appointment
An arrangement to do something or meet someone at a particular time and place.
Agreement
An arrangement between parties, usually resulting from a discussion, regarding a course of action.
Appointment
Appointments Furnishings, fittings, or equipment.
Agreement
A properly executed and legally binding contract.
Appointment
(Law) The act of directing the disposition of property by virtue of a power granted for this purpose.
Agreement
The writing or document embodying this contract.
Appointment
The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust
His appointment as treasurer was deemed suitable.
Agreement
(Grammar) Correspondence in gender, number, case, or person between words.
Appointment
The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed
The appointment of treasurer
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.
Appointment
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.
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.
Appointment
An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
They made an appointment to meet at six.
I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment.
Agreement
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Appointment
(religion) Decree; direction; established order or constitution.
To submit to the divine appointments.
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.
Appointment
(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.
Agreement
An agreeable quality.
Appointment
(government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.
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.
Appointment
(in the plural) Equipment, furniture.
Agreement
Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
Appointment
(US) An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college.
To have an appointment
Agreement
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
Appointment
(obsolete) The allowance paid to a public officer.
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
Appointment
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.
Agreement
Compatibility of observations;
There was no agreement between theory and measurement
The results of two tests were in correspondence
Appointment
The state of being appointed to som service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
Agreement
Harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
The two parties were in agreement
Appointment
Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
Agreement
The thing arranged or agreed to;
They made arrangements to meet in Chicago
Appointment
Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
According to the appointment of the priests.
Agreement
The determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
Appointment
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.
Agreement
The verbal act of agreeing
Appointment
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.
The cavaliers emulated their chief in the richness of their appointments.
I'll prove it in my shackles, with these handsVoid of appointment, that thou liest.
Appointment
An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; - properly only in the plural.
An expense proportioned to his appointments and fortune is necessary.
Appointment
A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
Appointment
The act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
The appointment had to be approved by the whole committee
Appointment
A meeting arranged in advance;
She asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date
Appointment
(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
Appointment
A person who is appointed to a job or position
Appointment
The job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed;
He applied for an appointment in the treasury
Appointment
(law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment;
She allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment
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