compact

Roget category 769

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.8. Conditional intersocial volition
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#769. Compact

noun

compact, contract, agreement, bargain — affidation^† — pact, paction^† — bond, covenant, indenture — bundobast^†, deal.
stipulation, settlement, convention — compromise, cartel.
Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein [G.], Sonderbund [G.], charter, Magna Charta [Lat.], Progmatic Sanction, customs union, free trade region — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT — most favored nation status.
negotiation etc. (bargaining) 794 — diplomacy etc. (mediation) 724 — negotiator etc. (agent) 758.
ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil [Lat.], signet.

verb

contract, covenant, agree for — engage etc. (promise) 768.
treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms — bargain etc. (barter) 794.
make a bargain, strike a bargain — come to terms, come to an understanding — compromise etc. 774 — set at rest — close, close with — conclude, complete, settle — confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite — endorse, indorse — put the seal to — sign, seal etc. (attest) 467 — indent.
take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.

adjective

agreed etc. v. — conventional — under hand and seal.

phrase

caveat emptor.

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