accord

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The car is able to drive of its own accord, but needs an adult present who can take over if needed.

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harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"

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noun

harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"

noun

concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"

noun

a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for accord.

noun

harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement"

noun

concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"

noun

a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

noun

sympathetic compatibility

verb

go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded"

See also: harmonize, harmonise, consort, concord, agree

verb

allow to have; "grant a privilege"

Example sentences

The car is able to drive of its own accord, but needs an adult present who can take over if needed.

If I do good deed X at the point of a gun, I am a better person than someone who does it of their own accord?

"Entrapment" implies that the end result was that he was punished in what would have been a lawful way if he had committed the crime of his own accord.

It's unreasonable to expect cotton farmers or t-shirt manufacturers to do anything about this on their own accord.

From the article: "The Obama administration was claiming the accord was a "national security" secret.

Seeking to carve out a piece of the galaxy for its own, a large portion of Test broke away from the accord to form HoneyBadgers, an independently operating group still pledging allegiance to Test but not to GoonSwarm.

Thin the cat's diet slowly over time, widen a border here, replace some text with an icon there, and the small bits of death and shrinkage that occur over time will mean that cat will soon be ready to contentedly purr its way into that jar and fall into a dreamy slumber all of its own accord.