agreement vs approval

agreement

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

  • 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. 

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

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

approval

noun
  • An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that a person, thing, or event meets requirements. 

  • Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match their stated interests; the collector can approve of or return the item. 

  • An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones. 

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