| breach | a failure to perform some promised act or obligation |
| breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
anticipatory breach
constructive breach | a breach of contract committed prior to the time of required performance |
| breach of duty | a breach of due care |
| breach of the covenant of warranty | a failure of the seller's guarantee of good title |
| breach of promise | failure to keep a promise (of marriage) |
| breach of trust | violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him |
| breach of trust with fraudulent intent | larceny after trust rather than after unlawful taking |
| breach of warranty | a breach that occurs when an item is deficient according to the terms of a warranty |
| material breach | a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract |
| partial breach | a breach that does not destroy the value of the contract but can give rise to a claim for damages |
disorderly conduct
disorderly behavior
disturbance of the peace
breach of the peace | any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled |
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 |
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 |
rupture
breach
break severance
rift
falling out | a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions), they hoped to avoid a break in relations |
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 |
| breach | an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) |
| 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 |
gap
breach | make an opening or gap in |
transgress
offend
infract
violate
go against
breach
break | act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises, offend all laws of humanity, violate the basic laws or human civilization, break a law, break a promise |
agreed
in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |