accord
IPA: ʌkˈɔrd
noun
- Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.
- A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.
- Agreement or harmony of things in general.
- (countable, perfumery) A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.
- (law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.
- (international law) An international agreement.
- Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.
verb
- (transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.
- (transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.
- (intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.
- (intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone.
- (transitive, law) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To give consent.
- (intransitive, archaic) To arrive at an agreement.
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Examples of "accord" in Sentences
- The pen and the sword in accord.
- The Church is the arbiter of accord.
- This is untrue according the the trancript.
- The close was not in accordance with the debate.
- According to Descartes, the soul is indivisible.
- According to the dictionaries the title is okay.
- The accord agreement must be transacted on a new agreement.
- They are in accordance with the interpretations of the sources.
- According to Vanessa's cousin, there was no prenuptial agreement.
- He refused the Tripartite accord in 1985 and the Taef accord in 1989.
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