Gentlemen's Agreement

  

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Gentlemen's Agreement

Definition: Gentlemen's Agreement

Gentlemen's Agreement

Noun

1. A personal agreement based on honor and not legally binding.

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Specialty Definitions: Gentlemen's Agreement

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Business

An agreement that, although unenforcable at law, is binding as a matter of personal honor. Source: European Union. (references)

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Modern Usage: Gentlemen's Agreement

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Movie/TV Titles

Gentlemen's Agreement (1935)

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Modern Translations: Gentlemen's Agreement

Language Translations for "gentlemen's agreement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

gentlemenaftale, gentleman's agreement. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gentlemen's agreement, gentleman's agreement, herenakkoord. (various references)

   

French

  

entente tacite, entente l'amiable, convention tacite. (various references)

   

German

  

Gentlemen's agreement. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμφωνία κυριών, συμφωνία κυρίων. (various references)

   

Italian

  

gentleman's agreement. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

紳士"定 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

し"しきょうてい. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entlemen'sgay agreementay

   

Portuguese

  

acordo de cavalheiros (honorable undertaking, honourable undertaking). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

джентельменское соглашение. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

consentimiento de caballeros. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sözlü anlaşma (gentleman's agreement, oral contract, parol contract), centilmenlik anlaşması (gentleman's agreement). (various references)

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Alternative Orthography: Gentlemen's Agreement


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6E 74 6C 65 6D 65 6E 27 73      41 67 72 65 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000001 01100111 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#108 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#65 &#103 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 006D 0065 006E 0027 0073      0041 0067 0072 0065 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4171808678717971809852357384717179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Translations: Modern
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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