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pact/pækt/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : French; Origin : pacte, from Latin pactum, from pacisci 'to agree']
a formal agreement between two groups, countries, or people, especially to help each other or to stop fighting SYN treaty:
　 ▪ the Warsaw pact
make/sign a pact
　 ▪ The two countries signed a non-aggression pact.
pact with
　 ▪ a defence pact with the USA
pact between
　 ▪ a peace pact between the rebels and the government
⇨ suicide pact

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a suicide pact (=an agreement that two or more people make to kill themselves at the same time)
▪ She shot her husband and herself in a suicide pact.
non-aggression pact/treaty/agreement etc
▪ The countries will come together next week to sign a new non-aggression treaty.
suicide pact
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
electoral
▪ Yesterday, Labour's leader dismissed both electoral reform and pacts.
▪ One problem remained to be settled, which was the working out of the electoral pact.
▪ Following Bartlett's victory at Bridgewater, he launched a grass roots campaign for an electoral pact with Liberals and Communists.
new
▪ It's unclear how or when the mediator would react if a new pact isn't reached today.
NOUN
peace
▪ S.-brokered peace pact went into effect.
▪ On May 21 Haqqani announced that Masud and Hekmatyar had agreed upon, but not signed, a five-point peace pact.
▪ The commission also ordered a media campaign to raise awareness of the peace pact.
security
▪ The former Shah's advocacy of a collective security pact was a further black mark against the Gulf scheme.
suicide
▪ At the moment they don't know whether this was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.
▪ So they joined in a suicide pact which would rid them for ever of parental domination.
▪ Lowestoft is a town twinned with nowhere, although it is considering a suicide pact with Basildon.
▪ Desperate and afraid, they formed a suicide pact.
▪ Detectives are investigating whether it was an accident, a murder or a suicide pact.
trade
▪ Mikoyan signs a trade pact with Che Guevara.
VERB
make
▪ In making a pact with this devil, Lancaster County made a Faustian bargain.
▪ But before they gave up their freedom they made a solemn pact to see them through possible months in jail.
seal
▪ Whichever way, the devil will seal the pact for the usual price of his new agent's soul.
▪ We reach out our hands and seal our pact.
sign
▪ Mikoyan signs a trade pact with Che Guevara.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
seal a deal/bargain/pact etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mexico's Defense Ministry this month signed a pact that allows Mexican troops to train at American bases.
▪ Officials at IBM and Apple declined to comment on a possible pact between the two personal computer makers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, he said, it could not be a two-way pact.
▪ Over the past several weeks, I have broken the unspoken pact, without explanation.
▪ The pact details how the $ 81 million facility will be managed and operated.
▪ The pact is widely seen as one of the environmental fruits of glasnost in the Soviet Union.
▪ The pact they had silently concluded after Maurice's death stood exposed as a sham.
▪ The pact was ostensibly motivated by a desire to eradicate political dynasties and corruption in favour of political renovation and democratic change.
▪ The rights advocates claim the pact proves the market people were wrong all along.