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An agreement may be an agreement in beliefs, rules, practices (policies), or conduct.— File links The following pages link to this file: Alchemy Ada Adventure Apartheid Abbreviation Airplane (disambiguation) Abduction Alder Anno Domini Air ABC (disambiguation) Ad hominem Afghan AD Aether Aba Anus Affinity Ai AZ Albinism Accumulator Binary Chess Computer Carbon Cow Cricket (disambiguation) Collection Convex Culture Ceramics Case Creation Crow (disambiguation... Wiktionary full URL is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

• an agreement between individuals to follow a specific course of conduct -- whether it be moral, e.g., not to kill or harm each other, or immoral, e.g., to kill or harm an innocent individual.
• in law, a legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. See offer and acceptance.
• in 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. See agreement (linguistics), grammatical gender, grammatical number, and grammatical person.
• in economics, the definition of money as an "agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange", the agreement may be voluntary or coerced, conscious or unconscious, and may fluctuate with time or remain fixed.

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See also

• Consensus
• Best alternative to a negotiated agreement
• Gentlemen's agreement