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What (who) is Accord - definition
BRITISH TRADE UNION
ACCORD; Independent Union of Halifax Staff; Halifax Building Society Staff Association
accord
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Accord (disambiguation); Accord (record label)
(accords, according, accorded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
...a fitting way to celebrate the peace accord.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft n N
2.
If you are accorded a particular kind of treatment, people act towards you or treat you in that way. (FORMAL)
His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome...
The government accorded him the rank of Colonel...
The treatment accorded to a United Nations official was little short of insulting.
= grant
VERB: be V-ed n, V n n, V-ed, also V n to n
3.
If one fact, idea, or condition accords with another, they are in agreement and there is no conflict between them. (FORMAL)
Such an approach accords with the principles of socialist ideology.
= correspond
VERB: V with n
4.
see also according to
5.
If one person, action, or fact is in accord with another, they are in agreement and there is no conflict between them. You can also say that two people or things are in accord. (FORMAL)
...this military action, taken in accord with United Nations resolutions...
PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v, oft PHR with n
6.
If something happens of its own accord, it seems to happen by itself, without anyone making it happen.
In many cases the disease will clear up of its own accord.
PHRASE: PHR after v
7.
If you do something of your own accord, you do it because you want to, without being asked or forced.
He did not quit as France's prime minister of his own accord.
= voluntarily
PHRASE: PHR after v
8.
If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done. (LITERARY)
With one accord they turned and walked back over the grass.
PHRASE
Accord
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Accord (disambiguation); Accord (record label)
·vi To agree in pitch and tone.
II. Accord ·vt Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.
III. Accord ·vt Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
IV. Accord ·vt Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act;
- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.
V. Accord ·vt Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.
VI. Accord ·vt To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to Adjust;
- followed by to.
VII. Accord ·vt To grant as suitable or proper; to Concede; to Award; as, to accord to one due praise.
VIII. Accord ·vt An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
IX. Accord ·vt To bring to an agreement, as persons; to Reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.
- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.
accord
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Accord (disambiguation); Accord (record label)
I
n.
1) to come to, reach an accord
2) an accord with smb. about smt. (we reached an accord with the neighboring country about our common border)
3) an accord that + clause (they came to an accord that profits would be shared equally)
4) in accord with
5) (formal) of one's own accord (he participated of his own accord)
II
v. (formal)
1) (A) we accorded a hero's welcome to him; or: we accorded him a hero's welcome
2) (rare) (d; intr.) to accord with (our information does not accord with his report)
Wikipedia
Accord (trade union)
Accord is an independent trade union, affiliated to the TUC and the Scottish TUC and specialized for around 25,000 staff in financial services, including members in the Lloyds Banking Group, MBNA, TSB, The Equitable Life Assurance Society and Sainsbury's Bank.
Examples of use of Accord
1. They were part of Labour‘s manifesto commitment and in accord with the pre–election accord struck with unions, she said.
2. Israel‘s parliament votes on the accord Wednesday.
3. A. Implementing the accord could prove difficult.
4. Another accord mapped out the bilateral relations.
5. Her behavior does not accord with proper political hygiene and the principles of public ethics, but it does accord with our existing governmental culture.