AGREED UPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agreed upon mean? 

• AGREED UPON (adjective)
  The adjective AGREED UPON has 1 sense:

1. constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement

  Familiarity information: AGREED UPON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGREED UPON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement

Synonyms:

agreed upon; stipulatory

Context example:

stipulatory obligations

Similar:

noncontroversial; uncontroversial (not likely to arouse controversy)

 Context examples 

It was a relief to me when they at last agreed upon a compromise.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of its useful functions is to provide agreed upon standards for equipment including medical devices.

(National Electrical Manufacturers Association, NCI Thesaurus)

We were all agreed upon that.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The plan was talked over in a family council and agreed upon, for Mrs. Kirke gladly accepted Jo, and promised to make a pleasant home for her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This was agreed upon between the two friends as the only thing to be done; and Colonel Wallis was to assist in every way that he could.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This set of criteria are reviewed by and agreed upon by the user community or a governing body before they are released and adopted for use.

(Data Standard, NCI Thesaurus)

After the space of four years, at the time agreed upon, the four brothers met at the four cross-roads; and having welcomed each other, set off towards their father’s home, where they told him all that had happened to them, and how each had learned some craft.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was agreed upon, as what was to be; and every body by whom he was used to be guided assuring him that it would be for his happiness; and having some feelings himself which almost admitted it, he began to think that some time or other—in another year or two, perhaps—it might not be so very bad if the marriage did take place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When the time came, the father and son went out together to the place agreed upon: and the son drew a circle on the ground, and set himself and his father in the middle of it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The day agreed upon was pouring rain.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)