gentleman's agreement



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gentleman's agreement

A legally non-binding arrangement that is guaranteed only by a verbal or mutually understood agreement by the parties involved. Though my father left me his entire estate in his will, I made a gentleman's agreement with my brother to share the wealth equally between us.
See also: agreement

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Chawwah-Biblical Hebrew
Basil['bæzl]
Nisha-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali
Egino-Ancient Germanic
TessaTES-əEnglish
RasİM-Turkish, Azerbaijani