MEANING
1. A formal agreement, or the state of agreeing and being consistent with others.
2. Give someone a particular form of treatment, recognition, or an officially acknowledged right.
3. Be consistent with, correspond to, or fit with something else.
Use it for
identifying a negotiated agreement; describing agreement among parties; contrasting consensus with an unresolved disagreementSeparates agreement, the granting of recognition, and correspondence between claims or conditions. Academic functions: Argumentation, Evidence.
Words that belong together
- reach an accord
- a formal accord
- in accord with the proposal
On the page
The parties reached an accord on funding while leaving responsibility for implementation unresolved.
The interpretation is in accord with the letters, but their shared origin limits their value as independent evidence.
The discussion accords equal attention to rival explanations rather than treating one as the default.
The institution accorded the participants a right to comment on the interpretation of their interviews.
The proposed explanation does not accord with the pattern found in the comparison group.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- accord
- Past tense
- accorded
- Past participle
- accorded
- Present participle
- according
Usage notes
Noun: accord, accords; in accord with. Verb: accord someone something; accord with. Third-person accords; past and past participle accorded; present participle according. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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