What is another word for pacts?

Pronunciation: [pˈakts] (IPA)

Pacts are formal agreements between parties to handle a particular situation or circumstance. These agreements can have a wide-ranging impact and come with specific conditions of implementation. Some synonyms for pacts include: accords, covenants, treaties, alliances, understandings, deals, partnerships, and contracts. These words imply mutual cooperation and trust between parties, making them essential in the realms of business, politics, and personal relationships. Whichever word one uses, the concept of a pact remains the same - it is a binding agreement between two or more parties to achieve a shared goal, with legal and moral obligations attached.

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Usage examples for Pacts

He could have groaned in bitterness of spirit as he remembered what zealous care he had taken of those damning documents, veritable blood pacts of dark, unprincipled deeds, through which Shaughnessy held the wretched signers in the hollow of his hand.
"The Lash"
Olin L. Lyman
On the morning of the following day the king held his council in the bed where he lay, and it was decided that two knights would be sent as envoys to the Moors, to tell them that they wished to observe the pacts they had all agreed to and sworn to, and that they could go to their own lands in safety, with all their ships and clothing and jewelry, and that no one in the kingdom would harm them.
"The White Knight: Tirant lo Blanc"
Joanot Martorell and Marti Johan d'Galba
With many nations we have treaties of commerce, and the time may not be long in coming when such pacts will be reciprocated between all the trading nations of the world.
"The Nation in a Nutshell"
George Makepeace Towle

Famous quotes with Pacts

  • So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
    Haniel Long
  • For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
    Randy Neugebauer
  • So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
    Haniel Long

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