Agreement
The term agreement has a variety of meanings.
- Law: It may be used to acknowledge the existence of a legally binding contract that can be enforceable in a court of law.
- Law: It may also refer to an understanding between individual to follow a specific course of conduct such as an agreement to commit a crime i.e. a conspiracy.
- Relationship: When people are in agreement their opinions are similar, thus, perhaps preventing them from exercising a neutral point of view because they are unaware of any conflicting views. See also the entry on consensus which discusses when a group of individuals attempt to act with a common understanding or in agreement.
- Linguistics: it refers to rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts: see grammatical gender, grammatical number, and grammatical person.
- Economics: Referring to the the definition of money as an "agreement
within a community to use something as a medium of exchange", the agreement may be voluntary or coerced, conscious or unconscious, and may fluctuate with time or remain fixed.
See also Best alternative to a negotiated agreement, Gentlemen's agreement.
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