cosignatories

Fellow treaty endorsers

Cosignatories are people or parties who sign a document together with others.

The term appears most often in diplomatic and legal contexts: The cosignatories to the treaty agreed to reduce emissions.

A cosignatory shares responsibility for whatever the document commits its signers to.

Also spelled co-signatories.

treaty

ratification

Formal approval by authority

  • accordHarmony between parties
  • pactFormal agreement between parties
  • protocolPrescribed conduct rules

convention · agreement · parties · nations · states · diplomats · representatives · delegates · envoys · multilateral

legal

contract

Enforceable written agreement

notarization · authentication · attestation · validation · verification · certification · documentation · execution · clauses · provisions

authorization

approval

Favorable opinion given

endorsement · authorization · ratification · accreditation · acknowledgment · affirmation · concurrence · guarantee · validation · certification

joint

collaboration

Joint intellectual work

alliance · federation · confederation · union · bloc · collective · coordinated · mutual · shared · cooperative

Opposites
signatory status

cosignatoriesabstainers

Those who forgo indulgence

holdouts · objectors · refuseniks · dissenters · refusers

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