pact
/pakt
/noun
A formal agreement between individuals or parties: the country negotiated a trade pact with the US...
- All constitutional parties opposed to the pact were unionist, and they had no such difficulty in uniting.
- Traditionally, the Congress has eschewed formal, pre-poll pacts.
- If free trade were the only purpose of these trade pacts, the agreements could be written on a few sheets of paper.
Synonyms
agreement, treaty, entente, protocol, deal, contract, settlement, arrangement, bargain, compact, obligation, understanding, covenant, bond, concord, concordat, convention;
armistice, truce;
alliance, league
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pactum 'something agreed', neuter past participle (used as a noun) of paciscere 'agree'.
Rhymes
- liberty man
- liberty of the subject
- Liberty Party
- liberty pole
- Liberty print
- Liberty ship
- Liberty, Statue of
- Liberty style
- liberty ticket
- liberty tree
- Liberty Volunteers
- liberum arbitrium
- libidinal
- libidinally
- libidinous
- libidinously
- libidinousness
- libido
- Li Bo
- LIBOR
- libra
- Libran
- librarian
- librarianship
- library