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1.NounAn 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."sign a contract; write up a contract; read a contract; countersign a contract; legally-binding contract; unwritten contract; Marriage is a contract."
2.NounAn 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.NounThe document containing such an agreement.
4.NounA part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
5.NounAn order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone."The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."
6.NounThe declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
7.AdjectiveContracted; affianced; betrothed.
8.AdjectiveNot abstract; concrete.
9.VerbTo draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen."The snail’s body contracted into its shell.; to contract one’s sphere of action"
10.VerbTo 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”."
11.VerbTo make an agreement or contract; to covenant."The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses."
12.VerbTo enter into a contract with (someone or something)."We have just contracted new pest control services."
13.VerbTo enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
14.VerbTo bring on; to incur; to acquire."She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.; to contract a debt"
15.VerbTo gain or acquire (an illness).
16.VerbTo draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
17.VerbTo betroth; to affiance.