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memorandum of understanding en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A document that outlines the legal and factual premises believed by the parties to have been agreed to between them.
   • Immediately after the passage of the act a general memorandum of understanding was prepared and submitted to the States. 1925, Report of the National Conference on Utilization of Forest Products, page 7:
   • The announcement did not include any information about when the negotiations might now begin, raising immediate questions about the memorandum of understanding that President Trump and Iran’s president had signed earlier this week. 2026 June 19, Jim Tankersley, “Swiss Officials Say Iran Talks Are Off, for Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation." 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
   • On the question of whether a memorandum of understanding is legally binding, British courts have held that this is determined by the presence (or, as the case may be, absence) of an intention to create a legal obligation, on the part of the states parties concerned, at the time of entry into the arrangement. 2012, Dinah Shelton, International Law and Domestic Legal Systems, page 624:
   • Memorandum''' of understanding between Long & Byrne and George T. Jenkins for the year eighteen hundred and fifty (1850). 1856, Maryland Court of Appeals Reports Vol 8, December 1855, page 141:

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Synonyms

memorandum of agreement

Translations (21)

ru мемора́ндум о соглаше́нии (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · de Absichtserklärung (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · fi yhteisymmärrysmuistio (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · sw mkataba wa maelewano (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · fi aiepöytäkirja (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · fa تفاهمنامه (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · sw hati ya makubaliano (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ru мемора́ндум о договорённости (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · id nota kesepahaman (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · fi yhteisymmärryspöytäkirja (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ja 了解覚書 (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · tl memorandum ng pag-unawa (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ta புரிந்துணர்வு ஒப்பந்தம் (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · sv avsiktsförklaring (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · es memorándum de entendimiento (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · fr mémorandum d'entente (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ko 양해각서 (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ru мемора́ндум о взаимопонима́нии (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · cmn 諒解備忘錄 /谅解备忘录 (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · km អនុស្សរណៈនៃការយោគយល់ (document that outlines the legal premises of parties) · ru протоко́л о наме́рениях (document that outlines the legal premises of parties)