accord
• verb 1 give or grant someone (power or recognition). 2 (accord with) be in agreement or consistent with. • noun 1 an official agreement or treaty. 2 agreement in opinion or feeling. — PHRASES of one’s own accord voluntarily or without outside intervention. with one accord in a united way. — ORIGIN Old French acorder ‘reconcile, be of one mind’, from Latin cor ‘heart’.
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