treaty

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a decision or arrangement between groups or people
agreementDo we have an agreement?
understandingWe had an understanding that the businesses would merge, but never got that in writing.
gentleman's agreementHe and his builder have a gentleman's agreement that if there are spare materials left after working on the flat, the builder can take them home.
dealDo we have a deal?
contractThe basketball player was signed to a multimillion-dollar contract with a new team this week.
accordThe leaders of the four countries signed a peace accord.
a non-aggression pact互不侵犯条约
The Nazi-Soviet pact carved up the Baltic states in 1939.1939年签订的《德苏和约》瓜分了波罗的海各国。
The leader of the religious sect and 30 of his followers killed themselves in a suicide pact last year.去年那个宗教教派的领袖同30名追随者签署了自杀协定，集体自杀了。
They made a pact never to tell anyone about the accident.
Management have formed a pact with the unions.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Making & breaking promises & commitments
be on your honouridiom
bond
breach of contract
commit someone to something
commitment
committed
covenant
cross my heart (and hope to die)idiom
deliver on something
fink
fink out
oath
pledge
promises, promises!idiom
promisor
promissory
repledge
restrictive covenant
sworn
vow

pact | American Dictionary

pact
noun[ C ]
us/pækt/
a formal agreement between two people or groups of people:
a peace pact

pact | Business English

pact
noun[ C ]
uk /pækt/us
a formal agreement between two or more people, groups of people, or organizations:
a pact with sbThe free trade pact with the United States should be completed soon.
The company has signed a pact with its unions that guarantees no further job cuts.

Examples of pact

pact
The federal constitution was the outcome of an implicit pact of mutual protection between the central government and regional elites.
Each party wanted to hold the presidency first because of uncertainty over whether the pact would hold in subsequent rounds.
The act of two or more people consenting on the same thing about giving or doing something being called a pact.
However, lacking power to conclude such a pact, he needed authority from home.
Accepting the idea that a labour market existed meant moving away from the pact of reciprocity.
There was not an explicit governance pact or peace settlement per se, which resulted in recurring crises of governance throughout the 1990s.
Vestiges of the pact survived into the 19th century and have been noted in other works.
In the absence of elite pacts, there were no basic guarantees which could limit the risks which the transitions posed for the regimes.
The new social pact entails the retrenchment of the residual welfare system that was established in the late colonial period.
Designed to institutionalise a two-party system, the pact produced major amendments to the constitution and the electoral law.
In actuality, distinctions between the two became rather ambiguous, with the development of the community self-defence system through the community pacts.
Those pacts were publicly crafted in platforms containing, by way of separate planks on a wide variety of policies, coherent visions of political economic development.
These have been the chief articles of the unwritten state-society pact.
In the peace pact ceremony (hidit) the feuding parties met with an arbiter and promised not to fight each other any more.
These adjacent areas of policy-making remain at the national level, albeit subject to overall restrictions conforming to the so-called stability pact.
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