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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

pactpækt(n.)

  1. an agreement or compact.

  2. an agreement or treaty between two or more nations.

    Category: Government

Origin of pact:

1400–50; < MF < L pactum, n. use of neut. ptp. of pacīscī to make a bargain, contract

Princeton's WordNet

  1. treaty, pact, accord(noun)

    a written agreement between two states or sovereigns

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. pact(noun)ækt

    an official promise between two groups

    two countries discussing a free trade pact

Wiktionary

  1. pact(Noun)

    An agreement; a compact; a covenant.

  2. Origin: From pactum, from paciscere.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pact(u)

    an agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant


Translations for PACT

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

pact(noun)

an agreement, especially if formal and/or between the representatives of nations

They made a pact to help each other.

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