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 |
transportation shipping
transport | the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials |
shipping
cargo ships
merchant marine
merchant vessels | conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry |
| shipping office | the office of a shipping agent, an office where seamen are hired |
| shipping room | a room where goods are packaged and shipped |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
agreement
arrangement | the thing arranged or agreed to, they made arrangements to meet in Chicago |
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 |
| severance agreement | an agreement on the terms on which an employee will leave |
| shipping company | a company that provides shipping services |
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 |
| shipping agent | the agent of a shipowner |
| shipping clerk | an employee who ships and receives goods |
| 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 |
shipping fever
shipping pneumonia | a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep, involves high fever and pneumonia, contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market) |
agreed
in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |