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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accord
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peace treaty/agreement/accord
▪ The formal signing of the peace agreement took place in Lisbon on May 31.
according to an estimate
▪ According to some estimates, an acre of forest is cleared every minute.
according to the figures
▪ According to official figures, exam results have improved again this year.
according to
▪ According to the police, his attackers beat him with a blunt instrument.
classified according to
▪ Families are classified according to the father’s occupation.
extend/accord sb a welcomeformal (= give someone a welcome)
▪ Staff and students extended a warm welcome to visiting parents.
go according to plan (=happen in the way that was arranged)
▪ If everything goes according to plan, we’ll finish in January.
proceeding according to plan
▪ Work is proceeding according to plan.
the Gospel according to
the Gospel according to St Luke
went according to plan
▪ Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
▪ Their complete accord with singer and songs makes for the most perfect symmetry.
▪ They had been in complete accord with her work.
perfect
▪ They drank the whole bottle in perfect accord.
■ NOUN
peace
▪ Husseini was somewhat sidelined by the dramatic announcement of the secret Oslo peace accords in August 1993.
▪ National elections called for under the peace accord are expected to place around Sept. 1.
▪ Despite October's United Nations-brokered peace accord, landmines still maim about 300 people every month.
▪ For the first year of the Dayton peace accords, international attention centered on Bosnia.
trade
▪ They want Congress to require the administration to include more safeguards in trade accords.
▪ A trade accord was signed in which each country accorded the other most-favoured-nation status.
▪ Both camps support the trade accord.
■ VERB
reach
▪ We must put into effect all that has been agreed upon, and reach an accord on everything that can be conceded.
▪ To reach an accord, the government will likely have to devalue its currency, which would help boost exports.
sign
▪ They argue that they signed the Oslo accords seven years ago.
▪ The two sides signed a peace accord in 1994 after a nine-year civil war that killed 500, 000.
▪ They also signed an accord on the formation of a North-South Joint Reconciliation Committee.
▪ The day before the signing of the last accord, Maya sorcerers prayed for peace in ancient capitals destroyed by the conquistadors.
▪ In February, federal government negotiators signed an accord with the Zapatista rebels that calls for expanding indigenous rights.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cut your coat according to your cloth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For industry, these demands are intolerable, and companies have threatened to derail the accord if they are included.
▪ She felt so good she stopped the remedy of her own accord but within 2 weeks began a period.
▪ The Customs officer, policeman, and magistrate began to nod, at first uncertain, reluctant, then with growing accord.
▪ The two sides signed a peace accord in 1994 after a nine-year civil war that killed 500, 000.
▪ To reach an accord, the government will likely have to devalue its currency, which would help boost exports.
▪ When I knocked the third time, the door opened of its own accord.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
million
▪ The Democrat won by 118, 550 votes out of the 68 million votes cast, according to the official tally.
▪ That would raise a total of $ 75. 9 million, according to a copy of the filing obtained yesterday.
▪ Estimates ranged from 33. 5 million to 42 million pounds, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg Business News.
▪ Instead, the number was about 13 million, according to market research company International Data Corp.
▪ Rouse has roughly $ 100 million in cash, according to company data.
▪ The partnership hopes to receive more than $ 160 million, according to industry newsletter Thrift Liquidation Alert.
▪ Last year, BankAmerica casual dressers raised $ 1. 25 million for charity, according to BankAmerica spokesman Russ Yarrow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The law requires that racial minorities be accorded equal access to housing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At least she had accorded him the Monsieur.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accord

Accord \Ac*cord"\, v. i.

  1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks.

    My heart accordeth with my tongue.
    --Shak.

    Thy actions to thy words accord.
    --Milton.

  2. To agree in pitch and tone.

Accord

Accord \Ac*cord"\, n. [OE. acord, accord, OF. acort, acorde, F. accord, fr. OF. acorder, F. accorder. See Accord, v. t.]

  1. Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

    A mediator of an accord and peace between them.
    --Bacon.

    These all continued with one accord in prayer.
    --Acts i. 14.

  2. Harmony of sounds; agreement in pitch and tone; concord; as, the accord of tones.

    Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.
    --Sir J. Davies.

  3. Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

  4. Voluntary or spontaneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord.

    That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap.
    --Lev. xxv.

  5. Of his own accord he went unto you.
    --2 Cor. vii. 17.

    5. (Law) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit.
    --Blackstone.

    With one accord, with unanimity.

    They rushed with one accord into the theater.
    --Acts xix. 29.

Accord

Accord \Ac*cord"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accorded; p. pr. & vb. n. According.] [OE. acorden, accorden, OF. acorder, F. accorder, fr. LL. accordare; L. ad + cor, cordis, heart. Cf. Concord, Discord, and see Heart.]

  1. To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust; -- followed by to. [R.]

    Her hands accorded the lute's music to the voice.
    --Sidney.

  2. To bring to an agreement, as persons; to reconcile; to settle, adjust, harmonize, or compose, as things; as, to accord suits or controversies.

    When they were accorded from the fray.
    --Spenser.

    All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning.
    --South.

  3. To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise. ``According his desire.''
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accord

early 12c., from Old French acorder (12c.) "reconcile, agree, be in harmony," from Vulgar Latin *accordare "make agree," literally "be of one heart, bring heart to heart," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + cor (genitive cordis) "heart" (see heart). Related: Accorded; according.

accord

late 13c., accourd, from Old French acord "agreement," a back-formation from acorder (see accord (v.)).

Wiktionary
accord

n. 1 Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action. 2 A harmony in sound, pitch and tone; concord. 3 Agreement or harmony of things in general. 4 (context legal English) An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit. 5 (context international law English) An international agreement. 6 (context obsolete English) assent 7 Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust. 2 (lb en transitive) To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize. 3 (lb en intransitive) To agree or correspond; to be in harmony. 4 (lb en intransitive) To agree in pitch and tone. 5 (lb en transitive dated legal) To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award. 6 (lb en intransitive obsolete) To give consent. 7 (lb en intransitive archaic) To arrive at an agreement.

WordNet
accord
  1. n. harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters; "the two parties were in agreement" [syn: agreement] [ant: disagreement]

  2. concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal" [syn: conformity, accordance]

  3. a written agreement between two states or sovereigns [syn: treaty, pact]

  4. sympathetic compatibility [syn: rapport]

  5. v. go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, concord, fit in, agree]

  6. allow to have; "grant a privilege" [syn: allot, grant]

Gazetteer
Accord, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 622
Housing Units (2000): 256
Land area (2000): 3.388190 sq. miles (8.775371 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.052438 sq. miles (0.135813 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.440628 sq. miles (8.911184 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00155
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 41.791103 N, 74.228766 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 12404
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Accord

Accord may refer to:

Accord (Nigeria)

Accord is a political party in Nigeria. In the 2015 National Assembly of Nigeria election, the party won 0 seats in the House of Representatives and 0 out of 109 seats in the Senate.

Category:Political parties in Nigeria

Accord (company)

Accord plc, previously Accord Operations, was a public services provider based in Hertfordshire, England.

Accord (French record label)

Accord is a French classical record label, and the main classical imprint of Universal Music France. The brand originally belonged in France to Musidisc, founded in 1995, which incorporated the labels Accord, Adès, Disc AZ, Adda, Vega, Le Club Français du Disque, Sofrason. When Polygram acquired Musidisc in 1999 it began to use the label Accord for releases of Decca France, and for the Euterp series of the Orchestra of Montpellier.

For the Polish label CD Accord see Accord (Polish record label)

Accord (Polish record label)

CD Accord Music Edition is a Polish classical music label, based in Warsaw and founded in 1995.

The label won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium in 2012, for Antoni Wit's recordings Fonogrammi; Horn Concerto; The Awakening of Jacob; Anaklasis produced by Aleksandra Nagórko and Andrzej Sasin.

The label has in the past had some cooperation with Accord (French record label) as for example the motets of Andreas Hakenberger, released on Accord France and Accord Poland.

Accord (trade union)

Accord is an independent trade union, affiliated to the TUC and the Scottish TUC. Accord is a specialist union for staff in financial services with members in the Lloyds Banking Group, TSB, Equitable Life and Sainsbury's Bank. It has around 30,000 members.

Accord can trace its origins back to 1978, when it was founded as the Halifax Building Society Staff Association (HBSSA). The HBSSA was founded by John Simmons, the then manager of the Halifax branch in Plymouth. He had concluded that staff within the Halifax Building Society were in need of trade union representation, and had begun organising in earnest in 1977. Simmons was keen to avoid the use of the word "union" because of the negative connotations associated with militant trade unions in the UK in the 1970s. Accord's headquarters, Simmons House, is named after John Simmons.

In 1978 Ernie Roberts was appointed as the first General Secretary. Branch reps were elected and Regional Committees established. From these groups a National Committee was elected, which met for the first time in August 1978. The HBSSA was formed. By the end of 1978 the HBSSA was recognised by the then Halifax Building Society "as the sole bargaining agent for its members below Executive and Regional Manager level".

In January 1979 the HBSSA was granted its Certificate of Independence. This meant that it was recognised by the Government as a bona fide trades union and was afforded the rights to which it was entitled. In 1980 the HBSSA held its first conference in Manchester. In 1983 Ernie Roberts retired, allowing David Nash to become the second General Secretary. Bill Wright was appointed Assistant General Secretary.

At the 1994 Conference delegates voted to rename the HBSSA the Independent Union of Halifax Staff (IUHS). In 1995 the Halifax Building Society merged with the Leeds Permanent Building Society. The following year the Leeds Staff Association joined the IUHS. Also in 1996, The Halifax acquired the Clerical Medical Investment Group and in 1999 announced its merger with the Bank of Scotland. The union was therefore renamed again by delegates at the 2002 conference to reflect the diversity of its membership. From this point onwards it was known as Accord.

Usage examples of "accord".

To accord to the accused a right to be tried by a jury, in an appellate court, after he has been once fully tried otherwise than by a jury, in the court of original jurisdiction, and sentenced to pay a fine or be imprisoned for not paying it, does not satisfy the requirements of the Constitution.

Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.

It is therefore clear that she was not bound to fulfil that precept, but fulfilled the observance of purification of her own accord, as stated above.

accordingly, He experienced death by sharing in our human feeling, which of His own accord He had taken upon Himself, but He did not lose the power of His Nature, through which He gives life to all things.

And therefore of their own accord, and against the will of their parents, they can receive Baptism, just as they can contract marriage.

As there is a kind of commutation in favors, when, to wit, a man gives thanks for a favor received, so also is there commutation in the matter of offenses, when, on account of an offense committed against another, a man is either punished against his will, which pertains to vindictive justice, or makes amends of his own accord, which belongs to penance, which regards the person of the sinner, just as vindictive justice regards the person of the judge.

But the greatness of the consequent debt of punishment is in accord with the greatness of the ingratitude.

Tanjore officers, of their own accord, ended the dispute by cutting off his head.

If I am defeated, I shall at least not have incurred the reproach that of my own accord I deserted my post in an hour of crisis .

The other possibility was that the entry of the German troops would take place in a peaceful manner, in which case it would be easy for the Fuehrer to accord Czechoslovakia a generous way of life of her own, autonomy, and a certain measure of national freedom.

Roosevelt in a position, in spite of the enormous amount of work which must rest upon him in his own country, to recognize of his own accord all these inner spiritual and mental impressions of other peoples and their governments?

Army for the continuation of the operations in the East do not accord with my intentions.

In the first six months of the accord, some 140,000 German troops in Norway were exchanged and the German forces there greatly strengthened by supplies.

Congressional legislation which is to be made effective through negotiation and inquiry within the international field must often accord to the President a degree of discretion and freedom from statutory restriction which would not be admissible were domestic affairs alone involved.

Massachusetts, a state of domiciliary origin, was required to accord full faith and credit to a 90-day Florida decree which had been contested by the husband.