The difference between Agreement and Conspiracy

When used as nouns, agreement means an understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct, whereas conspiracy means the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.

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  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.

  1. Conspiracy as a noun:

    The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.

  2. Conspiracy as a noun (legal):

    An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.

  3. Conspiracy as a noun:

    A group of ravens.

  4. Conspiracy as a noun (linguistics):

    A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.

  5. Conspiracy as a noun:

    A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.

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