| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A legally binding arrangement between parties: agreement, bond, compact2, contract, covenant, pact. See AGREE. 2. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, body, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convocation, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. Informal : get-together. See COLLECT. 3. A formal assemblage of the members of a group: assembly, conference, congress, convocation, meeting. See ASSEMBLE. 4. An accepted way of doing something: form. See USUAL. 5. A formal, usually written settlement between nations: accord, agreement, concord, pact, treaty. See AGREE, POLITICS.
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