Meanings
nounsuicide pact (plural suicide pacts)
plural suicide pacts
- An agreement between two or more people to commit suicide.
[…] with only three exceptions, no locomotives built since 1906 have been scrapped. One of the exceptions was an experimental high-pressure shunting locomotive; the other two made a suicide pact and collided.
1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 558 - governmentAn arrangement or system of rules that is followed despite restricting the ability to deal with critical issues.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 約死 /约死
- 約死 /约死 (yuēsǐ)agreement to commit suicide
Finnish itsemurhasopimus
- itsemurhasopimusagreement to commit suicide
German Selbstmordpakt, Suizidpakt
- Selbstmordpaktagreement to commit suicide
- Suizidpaktagreement to commit suicide
Spanish pacto de suicidio
- pacto de suicidioagreement to commit suicide
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APA
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MLA
“suicide pact.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suicide%20pact. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “suicide pact,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/suicide%20pact.
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