0 a formal agreement between two people or groups of people:
[ + to infinitive ] Big drug companies plan to form a pact with the National Institutes of Health to share information.
1 a formal agreement between two people or groups of people:
a peace pact
2 a formal agreement between two or more people, groups of people, or organizations:
These adjacent areas of policy-making remain at the national level, albeit subject to overall restrictions conforming to the so-called stability pact.
In the peace pact ceremony (hidit) the feuding parties met with an arbiter and promised not to fight each other any more.
These have been the chief articles of the unwritten state-society pact.
Those pacts were publicly crafted in platforms containing, by way of separate planks on a wide variety of policies, coherent visions of political economic development.
In actuality, distinctions between the two became rather ambiguous, with the development of the community self-defence system through the community pacts.
Designed to institutionalise a two-party system, the pact produced major amendments to the constitution and the electoral law.
The new social pact entails the retrenchment of the residual welfare system that was established in the late colonial period.
In the absence of elite pacts, there were no basic guarantees which could limit the risks which the transitions posed for the regimes.
