contract
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1. 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.
"Marriage is a contract."
2. 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.
3. A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
4. An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
"The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."
5. The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
1. Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
2. Not abstract; concrete.
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Source: en.wiktionary.org
contract
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
"The snail's body contracted into its shell."
2. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
"The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't"."
3. To enter into a contract with.
4. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
5. To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
"to contract for carrying the mail"
6. To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
"She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."
7. To gain or acquire (an illness).
8. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
9. To betroth; to affiance.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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