agree

present singular third person agrees · participle present agreeing · participle past agreed · past agreed

1. intransitiveTo be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.

   All parties agree in the expediency of the law.

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   I mostly agree with what you said, but I consider your last point to be unfair.

   I couldn’t agree more with what you say, but my brother still doesn't quite agree.

   You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree.

   1594, Thomas Lodge, The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla, page 46

   Theresa May’s cabinet repeatedly fails to agree with itself on what customs arrangement it wants with the EU after Brexit

   2018, Jon Stone, “Brexit: No significant progress made on any issue in negotiations since March, says EU (The Independent)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   If music and sweet poetry agree.

   1599, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in The Passionate Pilgrime. […], 2nd edition, London: […] [Thomas Judson] for W[illiam] Iaggard, and are to be sold by W[illiam] Leake, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms: concur, stipulate, concur, coincide, correspond, match, resemble, tie in

2. intransitiveTo give assent; to accede.

   It was agreed to meet here at midday.

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   The workers did not agree to the new terms offered by the trade union.

3. IrelandUKtransitiveTo yield assent to; to approve.

   We agreed a bargain yesterday.

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   ... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...

   1666, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, page 88

   The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.

   2005, Paddy McNutt, Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective, page 59

   Bishops agree sex abuse rules

   2011 April 3, John Burke, The Sunday Business Post

   Synonyms: approve, set, strike

4. intransitiveTo make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

   But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 20:13

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   Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matt 5:25

   Synonyms: bargain

5. intransitiveTo resemble; to coincide; to correspond; to tally.

   The two scales agree exactly.

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   The picture does not agree with the original.

   The witnesses' stories agree in most details with the accused's.

   Synonyms: check

6. intransitivenow always with withTo suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

   The same food does not agree with every constitution.

   Synonyms: fit, suit

7. intransitivegrammarTo correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.

   In Romanian, all articles, adjectives, and pronouns agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to.

8. intransitivelawTo consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.