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pact

/pækt/

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What does pact mean?

noun

  1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
  2. An agreement between two or more nations.
  3. An alliance or coalition.
More meanings (1)

verb

  1. To form a pact; to agree formally.

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We have already established such a defense pact for the Western Hemisphere by the treaty of Rio de Janeiro.
United States. PresidentsUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. BushProject Gutenberg ebook #925
Thus, Cuba, like the former Warsaw Pact nations, has remained in the backwater of economic modernization.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1993 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #87
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Let's seal this mercantile pact— The step we ne'er shall rue— It gives whatever we lacked— The statement's strictly true.
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
And those Laws were the Laws of Nature, and the Civill Laws of the State, whereto every Christian man had by pact submitted himself.
Thomas HobbesLeviathanProject Gutenberg ebook #3207
That’s a new question; still replies the fact, Nothing endures: the wind moans, saying so; We moan in acquiescence: there’s life’s pact, Perhaps probation--do I know?
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260