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 |
mutual aid
international logistic support | arrangements made between nations to assist each other |
agreement
correspondence | compatibility of observations, there was no agreement between theory and measurement, the results of two tests were in correspondence |
| mutual resemblance | symmetrical resemblance |
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 |
mutual fund
mutual fund company
open-end fund
open-end investment company | a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares |
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 |
mutual savings bank
MSB | a statehartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees |
| mutual induction | generation of electromotive forces in each other by two adjacent circuits |
| mutual fund | the pooled money that is invested in assets |
coefficient of mutual induction
mutual inductance | a measure of the induction between two circuits, the ratio of the electromotive force in a circuit to the corresponding change of current in a neighboring circuit, usually measured in henries |
| 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 |
mutual understanding
mutual affection | sympathy of each person for the other |
mutual opposition
polarity | a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies, he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil |
incompatibility mutual exclusiveness
inconsistency
repugnance | the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time |
| agreement accord | harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters, the two parties were in agreement |
reciprocal
mutual | concerning each of two or more persons or things, especially given or done in return, reciprocal aid, reciprocal trade, mutual respect, reciprocal privileges at other clubs |
common
mutual | common to or shared by two or more parties, a common friend, the mutual interests of management and labor |
agreed
in agreement(p) | united by being of the same opinion, agreed in their distrust of authority |