contract

IPA: kˈɑntrækt

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
(law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
(law) The document containing such an agreement.
(law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

(transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
(transitive) To enter into a contract with.
(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
To betroth; to affiance.

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