Acknowledgment vs Agreement - What's the difference?
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The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
An award or other expression or token of appreciation.
An owning with gratitude of a benefit or an obligation (as in "acknowledgment" of a favor).
A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood, as a wedding invitation's acknowledgment .
(Telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission.
An owning as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form (as in "acknowledgment of a deed").
(legal) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment 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)
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, 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 acknowledgment and agreement
is that acknowledgment is the act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession while agreement is an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.acknowledgment
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Alternative forms
* acknowledgement (UK)Noun
(en noun)- See Wikipedia article on
Synonyms
* (act of acknowledging) confession, concession, recognition, admission, avowal, recognizance, ACKExternal links
* *agreement
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- 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 [...].
