Meaning & use

Agreance

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A state of shared opinion or accord; agreement (used informally, and considered nonstandard by many style guides).

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We're all in agreance that the deadline needs to move.

After some debate, the committee reached a general agreance on the new policy.

A note on using this word

Though it appears in some historical and dialectal usage, most modern style guides consider 'agreance' nonstandard and recommend 'agreement' instead.

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