Acknowledgement vs Agreement - What's the difference?
acknowledgement | agreement |
(British) The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
(British) The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
(British) An award or other expression or token of appreciation.
(British) An expression of gratitude.
(British) A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
(British, telecommunications, computing, networking) A response sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission.
(British, legal) The act of a man admitting a child as his own.
(British, legal) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfilment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) 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.
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An agreeable quality.
* 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
As nouns the difference between acknowledgement and agreement
is that acknowledgement is the act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession while agreement is an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.acknowledgement
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Alternative forms
* acknowledgment (US)Noun
(en noun)- a wedding invitation's acknowledgement
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Synonyms
* confession, concession, recognition, admission, avowal, recognizance, ACKagreement
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Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.
- Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, 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 ‘agree? 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 [...].