agree
to have the same views, emotions, etc.; harmonize in opinion or feeling (often followed by with): I don't agree with you.
to give consent; assent (often followed by to): He agreed to accompany the ambassador.Do you agree to the conditions?
to live in concord or without contention; get along together.
to come to one opinion or mind; come to an arrangement or understanding; arrive at a settlement: They have agreed on the terms of surrender.
to be consistent; harmonize (usually followed by with): This story agrees with hers.
to correspond; conform; resemble (usually followed by with): The play does not agree with the book.
to be suitable; comply with a preference or an ability to digest (usually followed by with): The food did not agree with me.
Grammar. to correspond in inflectional form, as in number, case, gender, or person; to show agreement. In The boy runs, boy is a singular noun and runs agrees with it in number.
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause): I agree that he is the ablest of us.
Chiefly British. to consent to or concur with: We agree the stipulations.I must agree your plans.
Origin of agree
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Opposites for agree
Other words from agree
- a·gree·ing·ly, adverb
- in·ter·a·gree, verb (used with object), in·ter·a·greed, in·ter·a·gree·ing.
- pre·a·gree, verb (used without object), pre·a·greed, pre·a·gree·ing.
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How to use agree in a sentence
This lets the lender and the buyer know whether the value and the loan amount are in keeping with the what you have agreed to pay for the property.
Six automakers, including Ford, have voluntarily agreed to abide by California’s higher efficiency standards, and Newsom cited them Wednesday as proof that the industry can make the switch.
California to ban new gasoline cars by 2035, a first in U.S. | Verne Kopytoff | September 23, 2020 | FortuneEarlier this summer, another round of direct stimulus payments to Americans was one of the few issues the two parties agreed on.
Will House Democrats be able to revive $1,200 stimulus checks? | Lee Clifford | September 23, 2020 | FortuneThough he still considered it “spiteful retaliation,” his office reduced the charges and agreed to push for probation after the officers pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief.
How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail | by Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press | September 23, 2020 | ProPublicaI consulted a respected outside oncologist, who suggested a complete neck dissection, potential new radiation, and a chest CT scan to look for metastases—yet he agreed that none of it would improve survival chances.
My cancer might be back—and I wonder if unnecessary radiation caused it in the first place | jakemeth | September 22, 2020 | Fortune
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTPentagon leaders agree to a person that the U.S. war against ISIS is succeeding.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War | Nancy A. Youssef | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTEven Democrats and Republicans can agree that Nazis are bad and Social Security is good.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIronically, this is the one precept on which liberals and conservatives agree.
For his part, husband James knew all along; historians generally agree he was in on it.
I issued a censure, and ordered that no one should agree to their conclusions, and that the Dominicans should not hold them.
As for Brammel, he consented, as he was ready to agree to any thing but a personal visit to the great metropolis.
He and Mathieson p. 66did not always agree, and the clash of arms frequently raged between them.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowJessie, we put first because to us she is of the most importance, and her father and mother would agree.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseWe have had three counsels' opinions on the subject, and they all agree that the patent is good.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick
British Dictionary definitions for agree
/ (əˈɡriː) /
(often foll by with) to be of the same opinion; concur
(also tr; when intr, often foll by to; when tr, takes a clause as object or an infinitive) to give assent; consent: she agreed to go home; I'll agree to that
(also tr; when intr, foll by on or about; when tr, may take a clause as object) to come to terms (about); arrive at a settlement (on): they agreed a price; they agreed on the main points
(foll by with) to be similar or consistent; harmonize; correspond
(foll by with) to be agreeable or suitable (to one's health, temperament, etc)
(tr; takes a clause as object) to concede or grant; admit: they agreed that the price they were asking was too high
(tr) to make consistent with: to agree the balance sheet with the records by making adjustments, writing off, etc
grammar to undergo agreement
Origin of agree
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