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pact
/pækt/
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What does pact mean?
noun
- An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
- An agreement between two or more nations.
- An alliance or coalition.
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verb
- 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.
Thus, Cuba, like the former Warsaw Pact nations, has remained in the backwater of economic modernization.
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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.
And those Laws were the Laws of Nature, and the Civill Laws of the State, whereto every Christian man had by pact submitted himself.
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?