The phrase "a common understanding between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing mutual agreement or shared knowledge among parties involved in a conversation or situation.
Example: "To ensure a successful collaboration, it is essential to establish a common understanding between all team members."
Alternatives: "a mutual agreement among" or "a shared understanding between".
Common definitions also serve as the basis for a common understanding between clients, families, and service providers, necessary factors in a collaborative working relationship around client difficulties (Dibben and Lean, 2003).
"If there is a common understanding between a man and his wife, that they don't want to have more children, then there's nothing that is stopping men from [having] a vasectomy.
Given the political sensitivities in Afghanistan surrounding cluster munitions as well as air and artillery strikes in general, the Department believes that a relatively low-profile dialogue at the sub-ministerial level will be the best way to ensure a common understanding between the USG and GIRoA that the CCM does not impede U.S. and ISAF military planning and operations.
"Excellent care for everyone in the last days and hours of life should be a common understanding between professionals, dying people and their families and between professionals themselves, about what such care should look like.
Accounting for the structural and economic consequences of changes to the modern IT infrastructure remains a challenge, as their complexity can affect more than one business process, and the need to share a common understanding between the IT and the business management challenges current IT governance practices.
An important aspect is to work with conceptual models to create a common understanding between construction and various health care professionals how the system works [ 16].
It has involved working to develop a common understanding, both between faculty within different scientific disciplines and between science researchers and educators.
Based on those terminology classes and a simple annotation guideline, all 10 abstracts were again annotated and discrepancies were discussed until a common understanding was reached between annotators.
Both analysts reviewed five transcripts with these two codes in mind and highlighted text fragments related to both codes and then met to ensure a common understanding of the relationship between the codes and the raw data.
Although certain conceptual details remain subject to further debate, Dobusch and Kapeller (2013) identified a theoretical consolidation of path dependence based on a common understanding that analytically distinguishes between three phases: contingency, self-reinforcement, and lock-in (see also Fig. 1).
Based on two important reports on the health workforce – by WHO and the MOH in June 2007 and by UNFPA in 2008 – the Sector Working Group on health is forging a common understanding on this issue between donors and with government.
