word | accord |
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definition | (1) To grant. (2) To be in harmony; agree. |
eg_sentence | What she told police under questioning didn't accord with the accounts of the other witnesses. |
explanation | A new federal law may accord with—or be in accordance with—the guidelines that a company has already established. The rowdy behavior of the hero Beowulf accords with Norse ideals of the early Middle Ages; but such behavior wouldn't have been in accordance with the ideals of a later young lord from the same general region, Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet. Accord is also a noun, meaning “agreement.” Thus, we often hear of two countries signing a peace accord; and we also frequently hear of two things or people being “in accord with” each other |
IPA | əˈkɔrd |
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