Pact

Definition: Pact

Pact

Noun

1. A written agreement between two states or sovereigns.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pact" was first used: 1429. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Pact

Compact

Noun: compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation; pact, paction; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast, deal.

Crosswords: Pact

Romanian (pact).

It could have been a suicide pact. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

I think the signing of a nuclear disarmament pact with the Soviet Union is at best an act of na�veté, and at worst an unsupportable negligence. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

At the same moment as the pact was being signed in Moscow, Hitler stood with his guests on the terrace of the Berghof and stared at the sky. (The Nazis: A Warning From History; writing credit: Laurence Rees)

We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. (The Karate Kid; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen)

You and I must make a pact ("I'll be There"; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

And I'll take a vow and seal a pact ("I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

'Cause we all just made a pact ("Master Blaster (Jammin')"; performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

How the German General Signed a Pact with the Devil (1914)

The Pact (2003)

Devil's Pact (2003)

The Pact (2002)

Pact (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Jane's Warsaw Pact Warships Handbook (reference)

• The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine (reference)

• To Trade the Stars (Trade Pact Universe, 3) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Pact Info = Truk Info (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Pact (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

The trade pact between the U.S. and Vietnam will have a good impact on the business of U.S. companies in Vietnam. (references)

The first was the collapse of the Warsaw Pact market, which accounted for 80-90 percent of defense sector output. (references)

However, upon the entry into force of the trade pact between the U.S. and Vietnam, U.S. companies will be allowed to engage in trading activities that presumably, include distribution of imported telecom equipment. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Among their major agreements are a 4-year wage moderation agreement signed in 1993, a reform of the pension system in 1995, and an employment pact, introducing steps for labor market flexibility in economically depressed areas, in 1996. The CGIL, CISL, and UIL are affiliates of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. (references)

Moldova

By the end of 2002, a free trade zone will be created in South Eastern Europe as part of the Pact. (references)

Moldova

It is also intensifying efforts to promote export growth and diversification by strengthening the trade regime, completing the process of WTO accession, negotiating a new free trade agreement with the European Union and joined the Pact for Stability in South Eastern Europe. (references)

Human Rights

Equatorial Guinea

The UNCHR has stated that the Government must show its commitment to reform by complying with nontechnical recommendations made repeatedly by the UNCHR over the last 20 years before a technical assistance pact can be signed. (references)

Lithuania

The reports criticized the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, named the killers of Soviet prisoners of war during the Nazi occupation, and described the destruction of the independent Lithuanian Army by the Soviets in 1940-41. In February an appeals court reduced the sentences of two of six persons guilty of complicity in the January 1991 coup attempt, and they were released shortly thereafter. (references)

Uruguay

One retired military officer told the press that "hundreds" of current and retired officers serving during the period of military rule had adopted a pact of silence with regard to the disappearances, and the military has stated that they will not apologize for their actions during this time. (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

The terms of the 1997 pact provided for a strong local government, consisting of mostly tribal representatives, including the chairperson; reduction of the military presence in the CHT region; and a substantial compensation package for displaced tribal families. (references)

Political Economy

Lebanon

Lebanon is a parliamentary republic in which, based on the unwritten "National Pact of 1943," the President is a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies a Shi'a Muslim. (references)

VENEZUELA

The legal framework for the protection of copyrights is provided by Andean Pact Decision 351 and Venezuela's 1993 Copyright Law. (references)

Political Rights

Equatorial Guinea

The pact called for the creation of a multiparty electoral commission and an observance commission to monitor compliance with the agreement. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The pact also stipulated an end to various political and electoral abuses and the extension of voting rights already nominally provided in the Constitution. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Opposition activists reported that the Government made virtually no effort to implement the pact. (references)

Trade

Peru

Peru has been a member of the Andean Community (formerly the Andean Pact) since 1969. The Andean Community is comprised of Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and Bolivia. (references)

Venezuela

Venezuela is a member of the Andean Pact with Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, and as such is a member of the group's free trade zone. (references)

Venezuela

Together with other Andean pact members, Venezuela is involved in talks to establish a free trade zone with MERCOSUR countries, replacing partial free-trade agreements. (references)

Worker Rights

Romania

The Government concluded a Social Pact early in the year with national union confederations and employer associations; in return for promises regarding wages, pensions, and new labor legislation, the unions agreed not to stage national strikes. (references)

Mali

During the year, the Government negotiated with all labor unions a social pact intended to encourage more discussions between workers and employers, thus lessening the risk of strikes; however, during the year, railroad and cotton parastatal workers went on strike. (references)

Croatia

In November the Government hosted a ministerial-level conference for Stability Pact participants to coordinate regional antitrafficking approaches; however, there was little publicity for the event and no broad substantive discussion of the problem occurred during the brief conference. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pact": enter into a pact ♦ pact I ♦ pact of mutual assistance ♦ suicide pact. Additional references.

Beginning with "pact": pact-sponsored.

Ending with "pact": CEI-PACT, death-pact, non-aggression-pact, nonaggression-pact, suicide-pact, warsaw-pact.

Albanian

pakt, marrëveshje (accordance, agreement, arrangement, articles, bargain, bond, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, concordat, concurrence, consonance, contract, convention, covenant, deal, dealings, entente, settlement, stipulation, treaty, tune, undertaking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ميثاق (agreement, compact, convention, covenant, treaty), ‏معاهدة دولية, ‏معاهدة (agreement, compact, convention, treaty), ‏وثيقة عقد, ‏تحالف من الشيطان, ‏تحالف (alliance, league), ‏عهد (ally, covenant, date, epoch, era, period, pledge, promise, rule, testament, time), ‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muckrake, muddy, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏عاهد, ‏صالح (adequate, godly, good, make one's peace with, make up, righteous, useful, valid, veracious, welfare, well being), ‏ذمة (protection), ‏إتفق (agree, bargain, be through with, close, come to an agreement, compound, concert, concur, fall in with, jibe), ‏إتفاق (accord, community, compact, composition, concert, concord, concordance, deal, oneness, promise, settlement, term, treaty, understanding, unity), ‏أتفاقية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

пакт (contract), договор (agreement, bond, concord, contract, covenant, treaty). (various references)

Chinese 

契约 (Concordat, contractual, Covenant, indenture), �"議 (agreement, protocol). (various references)

Czech

pakt, smlouva (accord, bargain, bond, compact, contract, covenant, retainer, treaty). (various references)

Danish

Pilotforanstaltninger vedrørende kombineret transport (Pilot schemes to promote combined transport(Pilot actions for combined transport)), PACT (PCTE-Added common tools), Fælles værktøjer til PCTE (PCTE-Added common tools). (various references)

Dutch

PACT (PCTE-Added common tools), Modelprojecten ten behoeve van het gecombineerd vervoer (Pilot schemes to promote combined transport(Pilot actions for combined transport)), gemeenschappelijke gereedschappen ter aanvulling van de PCTE (PCTE-Added common tools). (various references)

Farsi 

پیمان بستن (Covenant, Promise, Stipulate), پیمان (Accord, Act, Agreement, Avow, Compact, Compaction, Concord, Contract, Covenant, Faith, Hand, League, Oath, Promise, Testament, Treaty, Troth, Vow), میثاق (Convention, Covenant), معاهده (Bond, Compact, Treaty), عهد (Avow, Clause, Covenant, Era, Promise, Testament, Time, Vow, Word). (various references)

Finnish

PCTE-varustetut yhteiset työkalut(PACT) (PCTE-Added common tools). (various references)

French

pacte. (various references)

German

pakt (agreement, treaty), vertrag (act, agreement, contract, convention, indenture, treaty). (various references)

Greek 

PCTE-προστιθέμενα κοινά εργαλεία (PCTE-Added common tools), σύμβαση (agreement, compact, concordat, contract, convention, covenant, treaty), συμφωνία (accord, accordance, agreement, arrangement, coherence, coherency, compact, compliance, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformity, consonance, deal, stipulation, symphony, written document), � ειραματικές δράσεις στον τομέα των συνδυασμένων μεταφορών (Pilot schemes to promote combined transport(Pilot actions for combined transport)). (various references)

Hebrew 

אמ� �" (convention, covenant, treaty), חוז�" (agreement, contract), �"סכם (accord, agreement, arrangement, consent, deal, understanding), ברית (alliance, confederate, covenant, testament, treaty). (various references)

Hungarian

megállapodás (accord, agreement, arrangement, compromise, covenant, settlement, stand in, treaty, understanding), szerződés (compact, concord, covenant, engagement, obligation, treaty), paktum (covenant). (various references)

Indonesian

perjanjian (covenant, engagement, treaty). (various references)

Italian

patto (accommodation, accord, agreement, compact, condition, contract, covenant, stipulation, term, treaty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

盟約 (covenant, oath, pledge), 条約 (treaty), �"約 (agreement, convention), �"定 (agreement, arrangement). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうやく (agreement, conjugation, convention, joint translation), きょうてい (agreement, arrangement, boat race, curriculum, textbook, the bottom of one's heart), めいやく (covenant, effective or well-known medicine, oath, pledge, superlative translation), じょうやく (treaty). (various references)

Manx

conaant caggee (military pact). (various references)

Pig Latin

actpay.(various references)

Portuguese

PCTE-ferramentas comuns acrescentadas (PCTE-Added common tools), pacto (agreement, compact, concordat, contract, covenant, treaty), PACT (PCTE-Added common tools), tratado (accord, agreement, commentary, concord, covenant, discourse, enter, geological disturbances, tractate, treatise, treaty), ferramentas comuns para o PCTE (PCTE-Added common tools), convênio (accord, agreement, cartel, compact, concord, convention, covenant, treaty), albarda, ajuste (acceptance, accordance, adaptation, adjust, adjustment, agreement, align, concord, concurrence, covenant, enrollment, enrolment, fit, line-up, lining-up, negotiation, reconcilement, setting, settlement, smoothing), acordo (accession, accord, accordance, agreement, cartel, chime, combination, compact, compromise, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, consent, consonance, contract, convention, deal, keeping, settling, stand in, treaty), Acções-piloto em benefício do transporte combinado (Pilot schemes to promote combined transport(Pilot actions for combined transport)). (various references)

Romanian

pact, tratat (agreement, dissertation, tractate, treatise, treaty). (various references)

Russian 

пакт, договор (agreement, arrangement, compact, concord, concordat, contract, convention, covenant, indenture, non-aggression pact, treaty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pogodba (agreement, bargain, condition), pakt (treaty), ugovor (agreement, contract, indenture, missive, treaty), sporazum (accommodation, accord, agreement, arrangement, come to an agreement, convention, covenant, square deal, treaty, understanding). (various references)

Spanish

pacto (accord, agreement, compact, convention, covenant, deal, treaties), PACT (PCTE-Added common tools), herramientas comunes añadidas al PCTE (PCTE-Added common tools), Acciones piloto en materia de transporte combinado (Pilot schemes to promote combined transport(Pilot actions for combined transport)). (various references)

Swedish

fördrag (compact, forbearance, patience, treaty). (various references)

Turkish

pakt (agreement, alliance), sözleşme (agreement, articles, charter, compact, contract, contractual, covenant, engagement, indenture, oral contract), anlaşma (accord, agreement, alliance, arrangement, axis, bargain, compact, composition, concert, concord, conspiracy, contract, covenant, deal, entente, hookup, rapport, settlement, understanding). (various references)

Turkmen 

wadalaюmak (make a pact, negotiate). (various references)

Ukranian 

пакт. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hiệp ước (covenant), công ước hiệp ước ho� bình. (various references)

conpositio, conpositione, conpositionem, conpositionis, paciscor, pactum. (various references)

pacte. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pact": paction, pactions, pacts. (additional references)

Words ending with "pact": compact, epact, impact, nonimpact, postimpact, subcompact, ultracompact. (additional references)

Words containing "pact": compacted, compacter, compacters, compactest, compactible, compacting, compaction, compactions, compactly, compactness, compactnesses, compactor, compactors, compacts, epacts, impacted, impacter, impacters, impacting, impaction, impactions, impactive, impactor, impactors, impacts, subcompacts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pact" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aptc, jact, nact, pacca, pacet, pach, Pacht, Pachta, Paci, pacn, pacy, padc, paft, Paicf, pak, palt, paxt, pcat, pcd, pcr, pcte, pect, Phac, picta, picti, picty, plac't, Pmac, practi, Ptac, Ptca, vact, xact, yact. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: act, apt, cap, cat, pac, pat, tap.

-2 letters: at, pa, ta.

+1 letter: caput, chapt, clapt, coapt, epact, pacts, patch.

+2 letters: accept, aspect, atopic, atypic, capita, caplet, capote, captan, captor, carpet, cartop, catnap, catnip, catsup, claspt, coapts, cowpat, epacts, haptic, hepcat, impact, packet, pataca, patchy, phatic, placet, preact, teacup, tipcat, toecap, upcast.

+3 letters: accepts, aphetic, aphotic, aplitic, apomict, apricot, aprotic, aseptic, aspects, cajaput, cajeput, cajuput, caltrap, caltrop, cantrap, cantrip, capelet, capital, capitol, caplets, capotes, capstan, captain, captans, caption, captive, captors, capture, carpets, carport, catalpa, catchup, catnaps, catnips, catspaw, catsups, chapati, chaplet, chapter, chutzpa, coalpit, coapted, compact, compart, copycat, cowpats, crampit, cryptal, cuspate, diptyca, ectopia, ectypal, flatcap, hepatic, hepcats, impacts, jackpot, matchup, opacity, optical, outpace, packets, paction, pandect, paretic, parotic, patacas, patched, patcher, patches, patency, paucity, peacoat, peccant, pectase, pectate, picante, picrate, piratic, placate, placets, placket, plastic, playact, plectra, plicate, polecat, potamic, potlach, practic, preacts, precast, psoatic, repatch, spastic, spathic, spectra, spicate, stackup, tapioca, teacups, tipcart, tipcats, toecaps, topcoat, topical, tripack, typical, upcasts, upcoast.

+4 letters: accepted, acceptee, accepter, acceptor, adscript, antipyic, apatetic, aplastic, apomicts, apostacy, apothece, apractic, apricots, apyretic, atrophic, atypical, autopsic, backstop, becarpet, blacktop, cachepot, cajaputs, cajeputs, cajuputs, calotype, calthrop, caltraps, caltrops, calypter, calyptra, campiest, campsite, cantraip, cantraps, cantrips, capacity, capelets, capitals, capitate, capitols, capitula, caponata, capstans, capstone, captains, captions, captious, captives, captured, capturer, captures, carpeted, carports, catalpas, catapult, catchups, catnaper, catspaws, cenotaph, chapatis, chapatti, chapiter, chaplets, chappati, chapters, cheapest, chutzpah, chutzpas, claptrap, clodpate, clypeate, coalpits, coapting, compacts, comparts, compleat, conepate, conepatl, coparent, copastor, copatron, copemate, copulate, copycats, crackpot, crampits, crispate, cupulate, cuspated, deathcup, despatch, diptycas, dispatch, dumpcart, ectopias, empathic, emphatic, epitaxic, escapist, eucalypt, flatcaps, footpace, haptenic, haptical, hepatica, hepatics, heptarch, impacted, impacter, impactor, jackpots, matchups, mercapto, mispatch, nightcap, occipita, occupant, opencast, operatic, optician, outcaper, outpaced, outpaces, pacifist, packeted, pactions, pancetta, pandects, panoptic, papistic, paretics, parritch, particle, pasticci, pastiche, patchers, patchier, patchily, patching, pathetic, patience, peacoats, pectases, pectates, pectoral, peculate, pedantic, penchant, pentacle, pentarch, perfecta, petechia, phratric, phreatic, phthalic, picrated, picrates, piscator, pistache, pitchman, pittance, placated, placater, placates, placenta, plackets, planchet, plastics, platinic, platonic, playacts, plicated, poetical, polecats, portance, postcard, postcava, postface, postrace, potassic, potlache, potlatch, practice, practise, praefect, praelect, preacted, precasts, preenact, prelatic, protatic, protract, punctate, punctual, pushcart, pussycat, rapacity, reaccept, recarpet, sceptral, scotopia, scyphate, septical, spaciest, spastics, speciate, spectate, spectral, spicated, spiccato, stackups, synaptic, tapiocas, tieclasp, tipcarts, topcoats, traprock, tripacks, triptyca, tropical, tympanic, typecase, typecast, typeface, whitecap.

+5 letters: acceptant, acceptees, accepters, accepting, acceptive, acceptors, accipiter, acropetal, adipocyte, adscripts, afterclap, aliphatic, allotypic, ametropic, analeptic, anapestic, anthropic, antipyics, apathetic, aphanitic, apiculate, aplanatic, apodictic, apomictic, apoptotic, apostolic, apotheces, apothecia, appetence, appetency, applecart, applicant, archetype, aspectual, asphaltic, backdropt, backstops, backswept, becarpets, bicipital, blacktops, cachepots, cadetship, caliphate, calotypes, calthrops, calypters, calyptras, campcraft, campsites, cantaloup, cantraips, capablest, capacitor, capitally, capitular, capitulum, caponatas, capstones, captaincy, captained, captioned, captivate, captivity, captopril, capturers, capturing, carpenter, carpentry, carpetbag, carpeting, carrottop, cartopper, catalepsy, cataphora, cataplasm, cataplexy, catapults, catchpole, catchpoll, cathepsin, catnapers, catnapped, catnapper, catoptric, cenotaphs, champerty, chapaties, chapattis, chapiters, chapleted, chappatis, chaptered, chassepot, chutzpahs, cisplatin, cityscape, claptraps, clodpates, coadapted, cocaptain, compacted, compacter, compactly, compactor, comparted, complaint, compliant, conepates, conepatls, cooperate, copacetic, coparents, copartner, copasetic, copastors, copatrons, copayment, copemates, copulated, copulates, corporate, corposant, crackpots, crappiest, crapshoot, crepitant, crepitate, cryptogam, cuspidate, cystocarp, cytoplasm, deathcups, deprecate, dumpcarts, duplicate, eclamptic, ectoplasm, epistatic, epitaphic, escapists, eucalypti, eucalypts, exculpate, expectant, explicate, faceplate, footpaces, graphitic, haplontic, hepaticae, hepaticas, heptarchs, heptarchy, hypocaust, impacters, impacting, impaction, impactive, impactors, implicate, imprecate, inculpate, jockstrap, lymphatic, mercaptan, metacarpi, myopathic, nightcaps, nonimpact, occipital, occupants, opacities, operatics, optically, opticians, outcapers, outpacing, outpreach, pachytene, pacifists, packeting, pancettas, pancratia, panmictic, pantropic, parachute, paralytic, parasitic, parchment, particles, pasticcio, pastiches, patchiest, patchouli, patchouly, patchwork, patencies, patiences, patriarch, patrician, patricide, patriotic, patristic, paucities, peacetime, peachiest, pearlitic, peccantly, pectinate, pectorals, peculated, peculates, peculator, pediatric, penchants, pentacles, pentarchs, pentarchy, percolate, perfectas, petechiae, petechial, petticoat, petulance, petulancy, phagocyte, phenacite, pianistic, pickthank, pictogram, pictorial, piratical, piscators, piscatory, pistaches, pistachio, pittances, pizzicati, pizzicato, placaters, placating, placation, placative, placatory, placement, placentae, placental, placentas, placidity, planchets, plasmatic, plasticky, playacted, plication, plutocrat, pneumatic, poachiest, podiatric, political, portances, portapack, portulaca, postcards, postcavae, postcaval, postcrash, postfaces, potlaches, practical, practiced, practicer, practices, practicum, practised, practises, praefects, praelects, pragmatic, preacting, preatomic, precatory, precoital, predacity, predicate, preenacts, prismatic, proactive, procreant, procreate, prolactin, prostatic, protracts, psoriatic, pugnacity, punctuate, pushcarts, pussycats, reaccepts, recapture, recarpets, repatched, repatches, replicate, retropack, scapegoat, scapolite, sceptical, scotopias, simpatico, sincipita, skeptical, slapstick, sociopath, spaceport, spacesuit, specialty, speciated, speciates, spectacle, spectated, spectates, spectator, speculate, spermatic, spiccatos, stopwatch, sycophant, sympatric, syncopate, tailpiece, teacupful, tieclasps, topically, townscape, traprocks, triptycas, typecases, typecasts, typefaces, typically, untypical, upcasting, whitecaps.

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