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Term vs Agreement - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between term and agreement

is that term is limitation, restriction or regulation while agreement is an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

As a verb term

is to phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.

term

English

(wikipedia term)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
  • Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
  • That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
  • (geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
  • A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
  • A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
  • "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
  • Relations among people.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
  • Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
  • (mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
  • (logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
  • (architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
  • Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
  • (computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
  • (of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
  • (astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
  • (archaic) A menstrual period.
  • * 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
  • My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
  • (nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}

    See also

    * idiom * lexeme * listeme * word

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}

    agreement

    English

    Noun

  • (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= 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.
  • (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.
  • *
  • 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.
  • An agreeable quality.
  • * 1650 , (John Donne), "Elegie XVII":
  • Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

    Synonyms

    * (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty * (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion) congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord * (A legally binding contract) settlement * concord * (An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, niceness

    Derived terms

    * agreement coorporation * agreement in principle * Buttonwood Agreement * collective agreement * concession agreement * framework agreement * gentleman's agreement * heads of agreement * in agreement * interest rate agreement * knock-for-knock agreement * letter agreement * margin agreement * Multilateral Agreement * nondisclosure agreement * option agreement * partnership agreement * prenuptial agreement * purchase agreement * sales agreement * Schengen Agreement * security agreement * service level agreement * single union agreement * Smithsonian Agreement * standby agreement * standstill agreement * strike an agreement with * subordination agreement * subscription agreement * throughput agreement * tolling agreement * tripartite agreement * underwriting agreement * working agreement

    Hyponyms

    * (An understanding to follow a course of conduct) conspiracy

    See also

    * consent, approval

    See also

    * consensus * (wikipedia)

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