agreement vs assent

agreement

noun
  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

assent

noun
  • agreement; act of agreeing 

verb
  • To agree to a proposal. 

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