number agreement

/ˌnʌmbər əˌgrimənt/
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Other forms: number agreements

Definitions of number agreement
  1. noun
    agreement in number between words in the same grammatical construction (e.g., between adjectives and the nouns they modify)
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    type of:
    agreement, concord
    in grammar, the correspondence between two words
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