agreement vs permission

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. 

permission

noun
  • The act of permitting. 

  • authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority) 

  • Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how. 

verb
  • To grant or obtain authorization for. 

How often have the words agreement and permission occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )