liquidation settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
viatical settlement viaticus settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
colonization colonisation settlement | the act of colonizing, the establishment of colonies, the British colonization of America |
settlement house | a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services |
agreement correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
settlement resolution closure | something settled or resolved, the outcome of decision making, they finally reached a settlement with the union, they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences, he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
agreement arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
marriage contract marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
purchase contract purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
fair-trade agreement | an agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturer |
articles of agreement shipping articles | a contract between crew and captain of a ship |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
employment contract employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
licensing agreement | contract giving someone the legal right to use a patent or trademark |
merger agreement acquisition agreement | contract governing the merger of two or more companies |
sale sales agreement | an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer), the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office |
agreement understanding | the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises, they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business, there was an understanding between management and the workers |
working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
gentlemen's agreement | a personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding |
written agreement | a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties |
agreement | the verbal act of agreeing |
settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
out-ofourt settlement | resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court |
property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
village small town settlement | a community of people smaller than a town |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT | a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas |
colony settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland, inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government, the American colony in Paris |
frontier settlement outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
settlement | an area where a group of families live together |
viatical settlement | cash derived from sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
agreement concord | the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations |
number agreement | agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify) |
person agreement | agreement in person between pronouns and verbs |
case agreement | agreement in grammatical case between words in the same construction |
gender agreement | agreement in grammatical gender between words in the same construction |
agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
agreed in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |