contracts
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Definitions ofcontracts
- 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.
Example: "Marriage is a contract."
- 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.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
Example: "The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
Example: "The snail's body contracted into its shell."
- (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Example: "The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't"."
- To enter into a contract with.
- To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
Example: "to contract for carrying the mail"
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
Example: "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- To betroth; to affiance.
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