Definition of "accords" []

• Plural form of accord. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accord. (verb)

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• "Madeleine, the novel's "heroine" -- though the word accords her way too much power and agency -- early on contemplates nostalgia for the nineteenth century novels that followed "the marriage plot," and thus is the theme of this novel established."
• "Remember, the essence of the Basel accords is establishing a minimum ratio — of capital to risk-weighted assets — and ratios have both numerators and denominators."
• "Again, the name accords often with some remarkable and rare circumstance in the pope's career; thus Peregrinus apostolicus pilgrim pope, which designates Pius VI, appears to be verified by his journey when pope into Germany, by his long career as pope, and by his expatriation from Rome at the end of his pontificate."