Consensus vs. Agreement

By Jaxson

  • Consensus (noun)

    A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members.

  • Consensus (noun)

    General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action.

  • Consensus (noun)

    Average projected value.

    “a financial consensus forecast”

  • Agreement (noun)

    An entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

    “to enter an agreement;”

    “the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement;”

    “he nodded his agreement.”

  • Agreement (noun)

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

    “The results of my experiment are in agreement with those of Michelson and with the law of General Relativity.”

  • Agreement (noun)

    A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.

  • Agreement (noun)

    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.

  • Agreement (noun)

    An agreeable quality.

Wiktionary
  • Agreement (noun)

    harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling

    “the governments failed to reach agreement”

    “the two officers nodded in agreement”

  • Agreement (noun)

    a negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement between parties as to a course of action

    “a verbal agreement to sell”

    “a trade agreement”

  • Agreement (noun)

    the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency

    “agreement between experimental observations and theory”

  • Agreement (noun)

    the condition of having the same number, gender, case, and/or person as another word.

Oxford Dictionary

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