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From Old French agreement, agrement.

Full definition of agreement

(countable and uncountable; plural agreements)

(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2013-07-19, Timothy Garton Ash, Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe....The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

to enter an agreement; the UK and US negotiators nearing agreement; he nodded his agreement.
(uncountable) 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.
(uncountable, legal) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
(uncountable, linguistics) 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.

1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course Chapter 6Having clarified what we mean by â€˜PersonÊ¼ and â€˜NumberÊ¼, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must â€˜agreeÊ¼ with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":Her nymph-like features such agreements have
That I could venture with her to the grave ....

(An understanding to follow a course of conduct) concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty
(A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion) congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord
(A legally binding contract) settlement
(grammar, linguistics) concord
(An agreeable quality) amenity, pleasantness, niceness