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单词 pact
释义
pact
noun[C]
uk
/pækt/us
/pækt/
C2
aformalagreementbetween twopeopleorgroupsofpeople:
契约；条约；协定
TheUnitedStatesand Canada havesigneda free-trade pact.美国和加拿大签署了自由贸易协定。
[+ to infinitive]Bigdrugcompaniesplantoforma pactwiththeNationalInstitutesof Healthtoshareinformation.大型制药公司和国立卫生研究院签署了分享信息的协议。
Synonyms
accord
agreement(SAME OPINION)
compact(AGREEMENT)formal
concordatspecialized
covenant
treaty
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
a decision or arrangement between groups or people
  • agreementDo we have an agreement?
  • understandingWe had an understanding that the businesses would merge, but never got that in writing.
  • gentleman's agreementHe and his builder have a gentleman's agreement that if there are spare materials left after working on the flat, the builder can take them home.
  • dealDo we have a deal?
  • contractThe basketball player was signed to a multimillion-dollar contract with a new team this week.
  • accordThe leaders of the four countries signed a peace accord.
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More examples
  • anon-aggressionpact
  • The Nazi-Soviet pactcarvedup the Balticstatesin 1939.
  • Theleaderof thereligioussectand 30 of hisfollowerskilledthemselves in asuicidepact lastyear.
  • They made a pact never totellanyone about theaccident.
  • Management haveformeda pact with theunions.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making & breaking promises & commitments
  • bond
  • breach
  • broken
  • cross my heart (and hope to die)idiom
  • deliver
  • fink
  • go back onsomething
  • Hippocratic oath
  • honour
  • keep (herself) toherselfidiom
  • promise
  • redeem
  • renege
  • so help me (God)idiom
  • swear
  • uncommitted
  • unkept
  • vouch forsomething/someone
  • warranty
  • welch
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(Definition ofpactfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

pact| American Dictionary

pact
noun[C]
us
/pækt/
aformalagreementbetween twopeopleorgroupsofpeople:
apeacepact
(Definition ofpactfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

pact| Business English

pact
noun[C]
uk
/pækt/us
aformalagreementbetween two or morepeople,groupsofpeople, ororganizations:
a pact with sbThefreetradepact with theUnitedStatesshould becompletedsoon.
Thecompanyhassigneda pactwithitsunionsthatguaranteesnofurtherjobcuts.
(Definition ofpactfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpact

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The federal constitution was the outcome of an implicitpactof mutual protection between the central government and regional elites.
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Each party wanted to hold the presidency first because of uncertainty over whether thepactwould hold in subsequent rounds.
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The act of two or more people consenting on the same thing about giving or doing something being called apact.
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However, lacking power to conclude such apact, he needed authority from home.
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Accepting the idea that a labour market existed meant moving away from thepactof reciprocity.
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There was not an explicit governancepactor peace settlement per se, which resulted in recurring crises of governance throughout the 1990s.
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Vestiges of thepactsurvived into the 19th century and have been noted in other works.
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In the absence of elite pacts, there were no basic guarantees which could limit the risks which the transitions posed for the regimes.
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The new socialpactentails the retrenchment of the residual welfare system that was established in the late colonial period.
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Designed to institutionalise a two-party system, thepactproduced major amendments to the constitution and the electoral law.
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In actuality, distinctions between the two became rather ambiguous, with the development of the community self-defence system through the community pacts.
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Those pacts were publicly crafted in platforms containing, by way of separate planks on a wide variety of policies, coherent visions of political economic development.
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These have been the chief articles of the unwritten state-societypact.
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In the peacepactceremony (hidit) the feuding parties met with an arbiter and promised not to fight each other any more.
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These adjacent areas of policy-making remain at the national level, albeit subject to overall restrictions conforming to the so-called stabilitypact.
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