The difference between Accord and Agreement

When used as nouns, accord means agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action, whereas agreement means an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

Accord is also verb with the meaning: to make to agree or correspond.

check bellow for the other definitions of Accord and Agreement

  1. Accord as a noun:

    Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

  2. Accord as a noun:

    A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord.

  3. Accord as a noun:

    Agreement or harmony of things in general.

    Examples:

    "the accord of light and shade in painting"

  4. Accord as a noun (legal):

    An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Blackstone"

  5. Accord as a noun (international law):

    An international agreement.

    Examples:

    "The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War."

  6. Accord as a noun (obsolete):

    Assent

  7. Accord as a noun:

    Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

    Examples:

    "Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord."

  1. Accord as a verb (transitive):

    To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

  2. Accord as a verb (transitive):

    To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.

  3. Accord as a verb (intransitive):

    To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

  4. Accord as a verb (intransitive):

    To agree in pitch and tone.

  5. Accord as a verb (transitive, legal):

    To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

  6. Accord as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To give consent.

  7. Accord as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

    To arrive at an agreement.

  1. Agreement as a noun (countable):

    An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    Examples:

    "to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement."

  2. Agreement as a noun (uncountable):

    A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

    Examples:

    "The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity."

  3. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, legal):

    A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  4. Agreement as a noun (uncountable, linguistics, grammar):

    Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

  5. Agreement as a noun (obsolete, chiefly, _, in the plural):

    An agreeable quality.

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