What is the difference between “concentric” and “accord”?
What are the differences between two words and how is it used?
Where we got people: Under a 1986 compact, the roughly 70,000 residents of the Marshall Islands Under a 1986 compact,
the roughly 70,016 residents of The debate over loss and damage has been intense because the final language of the Paris
accord could require developed countries I think accord is more informal, while compact is specific to America. What are some good quotes from here
on Quora?
When is perfect defined
as “accord” or “accept” by dictionary. Compact = agreement.
In Wikipedia The Free Dictionary
(compact)
No two words have the same meaning so would have been treated as synonyms. But for their uniqueness there is a difference.
An agreement is a signed document document. An agreement is considered a final agreement. The boundary of a certain territory can be defined by an agreement.
Vocabulary. Co says: “a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties”
A compact is an agreement that normally includes promises by party to perform in certain ways under certain circumstances. It may be a decision that nation X will protect nation Y from attack.
Vocabulary. com says: “to execute an agreement between two or more parties by written agreement between their
governments” Agreements are reached, compacts are
formed.
Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms, first edition (1942) calls accord (in the sense of agreement) and compact (in the sense of contract) “analogous” words. It presents them in two separate clusters of related terms.
Accord appears with agreement and understanding in clusters headed by agreement. What are the useful comments about agreement :
Agreement, accord, understanding are here compared in their political senses. By a settlement they agree on designating a settlement reached by parties to a dispute or engaging in negotiations. They agree in designating a settlement reached by parties to a dispute or engaged in negotiations. All these terms imply concurrence as to what should be done or not done; all imply reconciliation of differences. One of the best is that these terms can be used for any thing that is not exactly consistent with their words. … Another meaning of “Accord” is “general agreement”. Use of this term often implies that the details have not yet been settled or that the terms of the agreement are not yet ready for publication; but that the conditions necessary to a final agreement have been fulfilled. In international law, an agreement is to give satisfaction to the injured party. The execution of such an accord bars further litigation.
Compact, meanwhile appears in a much larger cluster with contract, bargain, pact, treaty, entente, convention, cartel, covenant, concordat, indenture, and mise, under the general heading contract: Contract, bargain, compact, pact, treaty, entente, convention, cartel, covenant, concordat, indenture, and mise
designate an agreement reached after negotiation and ending in an exchange … A compact is an earnest or solemn exchange of promises, sometimes between state or political groups and often between persons. The only assurance of its execution being the trust which each party places in the word of honor of the other or others when it’s executed. When the word is used when a keen sense of the obligation which it imposes is assumed of each of the parties. How can I make sense of examples I omitted? Black’s
Law Dictionary (1968) takes a broader yet more formal view of the meaning of compact than Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms does: COMPACT,
n. & u00ad. A contract. . An agreements. S. Court case citation omitted. ] Usually applies to conventions between nations or sovereign states. A contract between parties, which creates obligations and rights capable of being enforced, and contemplated as such between the parties, in their distinct and independent characters (the documents above). Is sources citation omitted from bibliography? ] A mutual consent of parties concerned respecting some property or right that is the object of the stipulation or something that is to be done or forborne. . The
meaning of agreement is the same as Black’s except it’s “resolution of an injury”: accord, n.a.
A satisfaction agreed upon between the party injuring and the party injured that, when performed, is a bar to all actions upon this account. [ An agreement to accept something, in extinction of an obligation, that is different from or less than that to which the person agreeing to accept is entitled. [These Citations have been omitted. [The
most significant difference in meaning between accord and compact as applied to international accords seems that an accord is in some sense preliminary to the final agreement binding the parties; it is an affirmation that, in principle, the governments engaged in negotiations have reached broad agreement on the resolution of the issues before them, but that at least some details remain to be hammered out. [The most significant difference in meaning between accord and compact as applied to international agreements seems to be that an accord is in some sense preliminary to the final agreement binding the parties; there A compact, on the other hand, is an exchange of specific agreed-upon commitments more clearly in the nature of binding contract at international law.
Both Compact and Contract are verbal forms.
A contract describes a legal agreement relating to the exchange of services or goods and an accord is typically void, goods and services, (notwithstanding accords whereby land is offered as part of the accord I)