Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Don’t say that you ‘agree’ something, or that you ‘ are agreed with it ’. Also, when you use ‘agree’ in this sense, don’t use progressive forms. Don’t say ‘ I am agreeing with Mark ’. □  I agree with Mark. □  He agreed with my idea.

agree|able /əgriː əb ^ə l/

1 ADJ If something is agreeable , it is pleasant and you enjoy it. □  …workers in more agreeable and better paid occupations.

2 ADJ If someone is agreeable , they are pleasant and try to please people. □  …lunch with an agreeable friend.

3 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If you are agreeable to something or if it is agreeable to you, you are willing to do it or to allow it to happen. [FORMAL ] □  If you are agreeable, my PA will make all the necessary arrangements. □ [+ to ] …a solution that would be agreeable to all.

agreed /əgriː d/

1 ADJ [v-link ADJ , ADJ that] If people are agreed on something, they have reached a joint decision on it or have the same opinion about it. □ [+ on ] Okay, so are we agreed on going north? □  Everyone is agreed that something needs to be done about the situation.

2 CONVENTION When you are discussing something, you can say ' Agreed? ' to check whether the other people agree with what you have just said. You can say ' Agreed ' if you agree with what someone has just said. [FORMAL , SPOKEN , FORMULAE ] □  'That means we move out today. Agreed?'—'Agreed.'

3 → see also agree

agree|ment ◆◆◇ /əgriː mənt/ (agreements )

1 N‑COUNT [oft N to-inf] An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people. □  It looks as though a compromise agreement has now been reached. □  The two countries signed an agreement to jointly launch satellites.

2 N‑UNCOUNT Agreement on something is a joint decision that a particular course of action should be taken. □ [+ on ] The two men had not reached agreement on any issues.

3 N‑UNCOUNT Agreement with someone means having the same opinion as they have. □  The judge kept nodding in agreement. ● PHRASE If you are in agreement with someone, you have the same opinion as they have. □ [+ with ] Not all scholars are in agreement with her, however.

4 N‑UNCOUNT Agreement to a course of action means allowing it to happen or giving it your approval. □  The clinic doctor will then write to your GP to get his agreement. ● PHRASE If you are in agreement with a plan or proposal, you approve of it. □ [+ with ] The president was in full agreement with the proposal.

5 N‑UNCOUNT If there is agreement between two accounts of an event or two sets of figures, they are the same or are consistent with each other. □ [+ with ] Many other surveys have produced results essentially in agreement with these figures.

6 N‑UNCOUNT In grammar, agreement refers to the way that a word has a form appropriate to the number or gender of the noun or pronoun it relates to. COLLOCATIONS agreement NOUN 1

noun + agreement : free trade, loan, peace, tenancy; confidentiality, non-disclosure

adjective + agreement : binding, enforceable, unenforceable, voluntary; bilateral, formal, mutual; verbal, written

verb + agreement : negotiate; come to, reach; sign SYNONYMS agreement NOUN

1

treaty:…negotiations over a 1992 treaty on global warming.

arrangement:The caves can be visited only by prior arrangement.

deal:Japan will have to do a deal with America on rice imports.

settlement:Our objective must be to secure a peace settlement.

4

assent:Without their assent a political settlement cannot be reached.