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      "\u0259\u02c8grim\u0259nt"
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      "From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement. Morphologically agree + -ment."
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            "mean": "(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.\nCoordinate term: conspiracy\nto enter an agreement;\u00a0 the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;\u00a0 he nodded his agreement.\n2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, \u201cWhere Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli\u201d, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18: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."
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            "mean": "(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.\nThe results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity."
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            "mean": "(uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law."
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            "mean": "(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.\n1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 306:Having clarified what we mean by \u2018Person\u02bc and \u2018Number\u02bc, 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 \u2018agree\u02bc with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject."
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            "mean": "(obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.\n1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave ."
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            "mean": "consensus\n agreement on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia"
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            "mean": "metagenre"
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