Meaning & use
unanimous agreement
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Meaning
phrasecountable or uncountable
A situation in which every person involved agrees completely about something.
Grammar: Can be used with 'a' or without an article: 'There was unanimous agreement' or 'We reached an unanimous agreement'.
Patterns
- reach unanimous agreement
- unanimous agreement on something
- unanimous agreement among someone
After hours of debate, the committee finally reached unanimous agreement on the new policy.
There was unanimous agreement among the members that the project should continue.
The board expressed unanimous agreement with the CEO's proposal.
Common combinations
- reach unanimous agreement
- The negotiators reached unanimous agreement after a long night of talks.
- unanimous agreement on
- There is unanimous agreement on the need for climate action.
- unanimous agreement among
- Unanimous agreement among the judges made the decision easy.
- express unanimous agreement
- The shareholders expressed unanimous agreement with the merger plan.
Synonyms and how they differ
- consensus
- General agreement in a group, but it does not always mean everyone agrees; 'unanimous agreement' is stronger.
- unanimity
- A more formal noun meaning complete agreement; it is often used in legal or official writing.
Opposites
Word family
- unanimous adjective
- Agreed by everyone; used before a noun (e.g., 'an unanimous vote').
- unanimously adverb
- In a way that shows everyone agrees (e.g., 'They voted unanimously').
Commonly confused: unanimous agreement or unanimous?
unanimous agreement vs unanimous
An adjective, not a noun phrase. You say 'an unanimous decision', not 'an unanimous agreement' unless you mean the phrase itself.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'unanimous agreement' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Reach an unanimous agreement' is the correct pattern. The other options use prepositions that do not fit; 'among' would be used for the group, not 'between' or 'of'.
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