Definition of "agree"

agree

/əˈɡɹiː/

verb
third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed
1. (intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
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  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, […]
  For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Mark 14:56
  The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
  1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, and Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot
2. (intransitive, followed by "to") To give assent; to accede
3. (transitive, UK, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
  Quotations
  ... 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
4. (intransitive) To 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.
  Quotations
  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, […], Matt 5:25
  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, […], Matt 20:13
5. (intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
6. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
7. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.
8. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

Definition of "agree"

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