Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Lyhenteet
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
- (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
- (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
- (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) 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.
- (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
Esimerkit
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.[...]The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
- to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Personʼ and ‘Numberʼ, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agreeʼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.
- Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].
- The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.
- He nodded his agreement.
- The UK and US negotiators nearing agreement.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | agreements |