pact

From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”).^[1][2] Probably a doublet of patio.

• IPA^(key): /pækt/

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• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: packed

pact (plural pacts)

1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pact

   write up a pact

   New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.

2. (international law) An agreement between two or more nations
3. (military) An alliance or coalition.

pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)

1. (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
   • 1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, page 129:

     When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.

• “pact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pact”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “pact”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt

From French pacte, from Latin pactum. Doublet of pacht and patio.

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pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)

1. pact

• Warschaupact

Borrowed from French pacte, from Latin pactum.

pact n (plural pacte)

1. pact