oral agreement

collocation in English

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oral
adjective
uk
/ˈɔː.rəl/us
/ˈɔːr.əl/
spoken and ...
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agreement
noun
uk
/əˈɡriː.mənt/us
/əˈɡriː.mənt/
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or ...
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(Definition oforalandagreementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theoralagreementarose at the time of the then peace conference.
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The interesting thing is that at some stage in the game we clearly had only anoralagreement.
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I have difficulty with the proposal that a tenant might be assigned a tenancy on the basis of anoralagreement.
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The only possibility excluded isoralagreement, which is not a sensible way of dealing in copyright in this context.
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Is that a validoralagreementor must it be made in the presence of witnesses?
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At the moment, it covers any sort oforalagreement.
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But surely there must be something in the nature of an agreement other than in writing, and that is anoralagreement.
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But, similarly, anoralagreementcan be a collective agreement.
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He once said that anoralagreementis not worth the paper it is written on.
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In the case of anoralagreementwe are placed in considerable difficulty.
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The trade union accepts that, and that is an agreement; it is not written, but it is anoralagreement.
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In allowing anoralagreementto be founded upon merely opens the door to another argy-bargy about who said what during the mediation proceedings.
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It means that any man's accountant can make anoralagreementwhich can have the force of excluding any future right of appeal.
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We have had a great deal of discussion about agreements being in writing, and what is the benefit of anoralagreementin this matter?
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Does theoralagreementalso refer to a collective agreement?
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If there is anoralagreement, how is the tenant protected when there is no statement anywhere about what should happen to the family home?
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This triangular arrangement, which involved three parties, each transacting anoralagreementwith one of the others, but not with the third, was, nevertheless, held to be a binding agreement.
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That is anoralagreement.
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It refers to anoralagreement.
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