agreement vs confederacy

confederacy vs agreement

agreement and confederacy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
agreement	Yes	No	No	No
confederacy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, confederacy is a hyponym of agreement; that is, confederacy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than agreement:

agreement: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
confederacy: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

Other hyponyms of agreement include conspiracy, fair-trade agreement, covenant, unilateral contract, sale, sales agreement, bargain, deal, working agreement, gentlemen's agreement, written agreement, submission, entente, entente cordiale, oral contract, reservation, settlement, severance agreement, suicide pact, prenuptial agreement, tying arrangement.

agreement (noun)	confederacy (noun)
compatibility of observations	a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
the thing arranged or agreed to	a union of political organizations
the verbal act of agreeing	a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters

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