| Back | agrement /ah-GRAY-mahnt, -mahn*/ [the final syllable is nasal] |
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| Front | noun 1. Formal approval, especially one given by a country to the proposed diplomat from another country. 2. Grace notes: notes applied as an embellishment on a piece of music. [From French agrément (approval, agreement, pleasure), from Latin ad- (to) + gratus (pleasing). Earliest documented use: 1711.] "Relations again deteriorated when Iran denied agrement to UK designate ambassador to Tehran, accusing him of being a spy." - Shireen Hunter; Iran's Foreign Policy in the Post-Soviet Era; Praeger; 2010. |
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