contract
IPA: kˈɑntrækt
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
adjective
- (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
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Examples of "contract" in Sentences
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- They construed the contract.
- The contract was neutralized.
- The contract is understandable.
- This is the contract of prohibition.
- This measures the contraction of the diaphragm.
- The contract for the broker was not competitive.
- The construction work was tendered out as a turnkey contract.
- If we can find a term contract with adequate return, we would do it.
- When the network failed to work, Blockbuster pulled out of the contract.
- “All he had to do was manage to get himself a term contract of some sort.”
- To impugn a contract, means you are attacking the integrity of the contract.
- In our other regions of the world, we have concentrated on building our term contract position and have taken advantage of strengthening markets.
- BPCL, which started buying about 20,000 barrels a day of Iranian crude through a term contract in September, is considering whether to stop taking supplies, they said.
- Tortious interference is when a person or entity who is not a party to a contract or business relationship, but we'll stick with the term contract to cover both intentionally convinces one of the parties to the contract to break that contract.
- To see why, we first need to distinguish between actual, flesh-and-blood arrangements, in the law or in society more generally, that we call ˜contracts™, and the theoretical apparatus that contract theorists use to ground moral principles, which is also called (more metaphorically) a ˜contract™.
- Finally, we have also initiated construction of a 16-inch diameter loop of our existing oil pipeline into Texas City, supported by a term contract with one of our refining customers, which will allow us to significantly expand our total service capabilities into the Texas City area by in the second quarter of 2013.
- [Sidenote: All ages have the same interest in preservation of the contract, and the same Constitution.] "The nature of such an _original contract_ of government proves that there is not only a power in the people, who have _inherited its freedom_, to assert their own title to it, but they are bound in duty to transmit the _same_ Constitution to their posterity also."
- Your Committee can not regard marriage as a _mere contract_, but as something above and beyond; something more binding than records, more solemn than specialties; and the person who reasons as to the relations of husband and wife as upon an ordinary contract, in their opinion commits a fatal error at the outset; and your Committee can not recommend any action based on such a theory.