Vad betyder covenant på svenska och vad är definitionen av covenant?

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covenant betydelse and definition

0 a formal agreement or promise between two or more people:
- The contract contained a restrictive covenant against building on the land.
1 to make a formal agreement or promise:
- We covenant together to support each other.
- She was accused of covenanting with the devil.
- Five percent of our profits are covenanted to charity.
- The business will covenant 100% of net profits to be reinvested back into community projects.
2 a formal agreement between countries, organizations, or people
3 a part of a formal written agreement in which it is stated what must or must not be done, or in which someone promises to do or pay something:
- The lease contains a covenant that no animals can be kept on the property.
- Any loss of rent may be claimed as damages for breach of covenant (= failure to do as promised).
4 to officially agree to do or not do something:
- If business premises suffer serious fire damage the landlord usually covenants to reinstate the premises.

They covenanted with the landlord to pay the rent.
The husband covenanted to pay the wife £300 per month.
He is said to have covenanted the money to his close associates.
Leases contained complex covenants to ensure the maintenance, and if possible the improvement, of agricultural conditions on each farm.
Legislation passed in 1791 barred persons of mixed blood from civil, military or maritime employment as covenanted civil servants.
Availability of project-lending documents with policy covenants that are complementary to adjustment loans and/or government policy reforms would be preferable.
Another possibility is that the rise in environmental covenants in adjustment loans since 1987 results from a broader topical coverage of such loans.
Breaking these covenants led to stern warnings from the agent, and on occasion to fines, court cases, or eviction.