pact

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pact /pækt/ noun [countableC] → packed

PGPMa formal agreement between two groups, countries, or people, especially to help each other or to stop fighting 条约，协定，协议 SYN treaty

the Warsaw pact

华沙条约

make/sign a pact

The two countries signed a non-aggression pact.

两国签署了互不侵犯条约。

pact with

a defence pact with the USA

和美国签署的防御协定

pact between

a peace pact between the rebels and the government

叛军和政府之间的和平协议

Examples from the Corpus

pact• Mexico's Defense Ministry this month signed a pact that allows Mexican troops to train at American bases.• Officials at IBM and Apple declined to comment on a possible pact between the two personal computer makers.• The rights advocates claim the pact proves the market people were wrong all along.• The pact details how the $ 81 million facility will be managed and operated.• The pact is widely seen as one of the environmental fruits of glasnost in the Soviet Union.• The pact they had silently concluded after Maurice's death stood exposed as a sham.• The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change.• Over the past several weeks, I have broken the unspoken pact, without explanation.• But, he said, it could not be a two-way pact.

make/sign a pact• In making a pact with this devil, Lancaster County made a Faustian bargain.

From Longman Business Dictionary

pactpact /pækt/ noun [countableC]

a formal agreement between two countries, companies, groups of people etc, promising to do something for each other or help each other in some way

Workers at the factory ratified a three-year pact (=made it official) that boosts their pay.

pact with

The National Institute of Health signed a pact with a Japanese drug company to develop and test a new anti-AIDS drug.

Mexico is in its fourth month of negotiations on a free-trade pact with the US and Canada.

Origin pact

(1400-1500) French pacte, from Latin pactum, from pacisci “to agree”

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