contract in English dictionary

  • contract

    Meanings and definitions of "contract"

    • 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) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
    • (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
    • (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
    • (intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
    • adjective
      (obsolete)
      Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
    • adjective
      (obsolete)
      Not abstract; concrete.
    • 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.
    • noun
      (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.
    • noun
      (law)
      A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
    • noun
      (informal)
      An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
    • noun
      (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.
    • verb
      (grammar)
      To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To enter into a contract with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To gain or acquire (an illness).
    • verb
      To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
    • verb
      To betroth; to affiance.
    • The behavior and state that a class provides, which is matched with what a client of that class can expect to hold. A contract is expressed partly by the signatures for all public fields, methods, properties, and events of that class. This is augmented by a description (usually in simple descriptive text) of what each field or property represents, together with what each method does. In the .NET Framework add-in programming model, a non-versioning interface that defines the methods and specifies the data types for transferring data over the communication pipeline between the host and the add-in. The contract is in the middle of the communication pipeline between the add-in and the host. The contract assembly is loaded into the application domains of both the add-in and the host.
    • agreement that is legally binding
    • job governed by a specific agreement
    • part of legal studies
    • transitive: enter into a contract with
    • gain or acquire (an illness)
    • intransitive: draw together; shorten; lessen
    • (written) contract
    • diminish (in size)
    • To acquire or catch (a disease, something noxious, bad condition).
    • An agreement with which a person or a company are engaged towards another person or company to deliver a good or a service in exchange for a predetermined payment.
    • An agreement between two or more persons which creates an obligation to do or not to do a particular thing. Its essential are competent parties, subject matter, a legal consideration, mutuality of agreement, and mutuality of obligation.
    • contract (disease)
    • contract (for work)
    • To reduce in width or extent.
    • noun
      a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
    • noun
      a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
    • noun
      (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
    • verb
      become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
    • verb
      be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
    • verb
      compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
    • verb
      engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
    • verb
      enter into a contractual arrangement
    • verb
      make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
    • verb
      make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
    • verb
      reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
    • verb
      squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"

    Synonyms of "contract" in English dictionary

    reduce, abbreviate, get are the top synonyms of "contract" in the English thesaurus.

    Antonyms of "contract" in English dictionary

    widen, expand, stretch are the top antonyms of "contract" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of contract

    • contract ( third-person singular simple present contracts, present participle contracting, simple past and past participle contracted)
    • contract ( plural  contracts)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza contract, lm  liczba mnoga contracts contract, contracted, contracts, contracting
    • contract (not comparable)
    • contract (plural contracts)
    • contract (third-person singular simple present contracts, present participle contracting, simple past and past participle contracted)
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