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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."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.nounA part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
4.nounAn order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone."The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."
5.nounThe declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
6.verbTo draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen."The snail's body contracted into its shell."
7.verb(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"."
8.verbTo enter into a contract with.
9.verbTo enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
10.verbTo make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain."to contract for carrying the mail"
11.verbTo bring on; to incur; to acquire."She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."
12.verbTo gain or acquire (an illness).
13.verbTo draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
14.verbTo betroth; to affiance.