It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord.accord1 nounaccord2 verb
accordac‧cord1 /əˈkɔːd $ -ɔːrd/ ●○○ noun 
WORD ORIGINaccord1
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French acort, from acorder; ➔ ACCORD2EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- For industry, these demands are intolerable, and companies have threatened to derail the accord if they are included.
- She felt so good she stopped the remedy of her own accord but within 2 weeks began a period.
- The Customs officer, policeman, and magistrate began to nod, at first uncertain, reluctant, then with growing accord.
- The two sides signed a peace accord in 1994 after a nine-year civil war that killed 500, 000.
- To reach an accord, the government will likely have to devalue its currency, which would help boost exports.
- When I knocked the third time, the door opened of its own accord.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation. the Gospel according to St Luke Work is proceeding according to plan.
It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord. Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.· According to some estimates, an acre of forest is cleared every minute.
· According to official figures, exam results have improved again this year.
the Gospel according to St Luke· The formal signing of the peace agreement took place in Lisbon on May 31.
(=happen in the way that was arranged)· If everything goes according to plan, we’ll finish in January.
Work is proceeding according to plan. formal (=give someone a welcome)· Staff and students extended a warm welcome to visiting parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Their complete accord with singer and songs makes for the most perfect symmetry.· They had been in complete accord with her work.
· They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.
NOUN· Husseini was somewhat sidelined by the dramatic announcement of the secret Oslo peace accords in August 1993.· National elections called for under the peace accord are expected to place around Sept. 1.· Despite October's United Nations-brokered peace accord, landmines still maim about 300 people every month.· For the first year of the Dayton peace accords, international attention centered on Bosnia.
· They want Congress to require the administration to include more safeguards in trade accords.· A trade accord was signed in which each country accorded the other most-favoured-nation status.· Both camps support the trade accord.
VERB· We must put into effect all that has been agreed upon, and reach an accord on everything that can be conceded.· To reach an accord, the government will likely have to devalue its currency, which would help boost exports.
· They argue that they signed the Oslo accords seven years ago.· The two sides signed a peace accord in 1994 after a nine-year civil war that killed 500, 000.· They also signed an accord on the formation of a North-South Joint Reconciliation Committee.· The day before the signing of the last accord, Maya sorcerers prayed for peace in ancient capitals destroyed by the conquistadors.· In February, federal government negotiators signed an accord with the Zapatista rebels that calls for expanding indigenous rights.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1of somebody’s/something’s own accord without being asked or forced to do something: - A cigarette between his girlish lips seemed to be emitting smoke of its own accord.
- A healthy man to put himself into a sickbed of his own accord.
- Almost of their own accord his hands shuffled the rest of the pack.
- Chloasma nearly always goes away of its own accord when the high levels of circulating hormones return to normal.
- Dealers who weren't going to make it left, often of their own accord, before getting sacked.
- Ongoing problems seem to arise of their own accord, and then to spread through the ranks with no ostensible cause.
- Optimists had hoped the answer was that opposition would ebb of its own accord as evidence of growth began.
- Will we leave peacefully of our own accord?
- Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
He decided to go of his own accord. The door seemed to move of its own accord.2[uncountable] formal a situation in which two people, ideas, or statements agree with each otherbe in accord with something These results are in accord with earlier research.in perfect/complete accord It is important to the success of any firm that its partners should be in complete accord.3[countable] a formal agreement between countries or groups: the Helsinki accord on human rights4with one accord formal if two or more people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time: There was a silence as the women turned with one accord to stare at Doreen.accord1 nounaccord2 verb
accordaccord2 verb formal WORD ORIGINaccord2
Origin:
1100-1200 Old French acorder, from Vulgar Latin accordare, from Latin ad- ‘to’ + cor ‘heart’VERB TABLE
accord
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | accord |
| he, she, it | accords | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | accorded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have accorded |
| he, she, it | has accorded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had accorded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will accord |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have accorded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am according |
| he, she, it | is according | |
| you, we, they | are according | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was according |
| you, we, they | were according | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been according |
| he, she, it | has been according | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been according |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be according |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been according |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The law requires that racial minorities be accorded equal access to housing.
- At least she had accorded him the Monsieur.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation. the Gospel according to St Luke Work is proceeding according to plan.
Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time. Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.· According to some estimates, an acre of forest is cleared every minute.
· According to official figures, exam results have improved again this year.
the Gospel according to St Luke· The formal signing of the peace agreement took place in Lisbon on May 31.
(=happen in the way that was arranged)· If everything goes according to plan, we’ll finish in January.
Work is proceeding according to plan. formal (=give someone a welcome)· Staff and students extended a warm welcome to visiting parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· The Democrat won by 118, 550 votes out of the 68 million votes cast, according to the official tally.· That would raise a total of $ 75. 9 million, according to a copy of the filing obtained yesterday.· Estimates ranged from 33. 5 million to 42 million pounds, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg Business News.· Instead, the number was about 13 million, according to market research company International Data Corp.· Rouse has roughly $ 100 million in cash, according to company data.· The partnership hopes to receive more than $ 160 million, according to industry newsletter Thrift Liquidation Alert.· Last year, BankAmerica casual dressers raised $ 1. 25 million for charity, according to BankAmerica spokesman Russ Yarrow.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[transitive] to give someone or something special attention or a particular type of treatment: - Some researchers may edit their observations to accord with their theory.
You will not be accorded any special treatment.accord something to something/somebody Every school accords high priority to the quality of teaching.2accord with something to match or agree with something: The punishments accorded with the current code of discipline.