contract

Significado (inglés)

Noun

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.
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. The document containing such an agreement.
4. A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
5. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
6. The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
2. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Verb

1. To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
2. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
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.
6. To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
7. To gain or acquire (an illness).
8. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
9. To betroth; to affiance.

Conceptos

contract

agreement

shrink

covenant

shorten

reduce

treaty

compact

pact

narrow

get

compress

promise

commitment

undertake

shrivel

deal

draw in

bond

indenture

catch

friendship

constrict

cut

deed

condense

take

tighten

abbreviate

lessen

abridge

written agreement

bargain

engage

curtail

diminish

stipulation

tense

make a contract

foreshorten

sign

conclude

make a deal

take on

agree

squeeze

decrease

charter

sign up

arrangement

knit

concentrate

contract bridge

declaration

acquire

wrinkle

concordat

lease

astringe

roll up

make smaller

double up

subscription

cramp

take over

take up

contracting

get narrower

hire

huddle

withdraw

close

limit

restrict

obligation

stretch

tauten

draw together

bend

press

sign on

accord

come down with

convention

draw

retrench

cuddle up

curl up

prepare

pucker

contract marriage

combine

dwindle

wane

beautiful

accede

acquiesce

adhere

assent

be congruent

coincide

comply

comport

concur

confrom

consent

correspond

fit

harmonize

match

binding agreement

legal agreement

strangle

strangulate

draw up a contract

lower

mitigate

moderate

mollify

fold

pledge

be cramped

be responsible for

guarantee

undertaking

employ

procure

draw back

retract

harden

make an agreement

digest

document binding

insurance policy

pull in

making a promise

making agreement

code

constitution

ageement

settlement

swap

swop

bend inward

curve

close up

written compact

concord

betrothal

incur

confine

contractual

form

trailer

be tight

shrivel up

decree

squat

commit oneself

resume

shoulder

cockle

cower

crimple

cringe

crinkle

crouch

crumple

ruck

rumple

wimple

cleave

cling

glue

gum

gum up

intrude

paste

size

stick

bear away

carry off

clear away

collect

derive

take in

straiten

stipulate

attach

join

furl

bargaining

instrument

austerity

compression

condensation

restraint

engagement letter

letter of appointment

contracted

compromise

bend down

fold up

hitman

killer

infect

bag

assume

attain

bring

bring in

buy

find

gain

get laid

have

let

obtain

put

reap

receive

score

spring

come down

sicken

accordance

alliance

submission

brail

circumscribe

overbear

crease

converge

make narrow

become smaller

conclusion

final decision

reservation

affected with

convention treaty

huddle up

wilt

become ill

fall ill

fall sick

get sick

taken ill

formal agreement

spasm

legal document

taper

pick up

enter into

outsourcing

testament

about

around

bind

restrain

simply

cut down

minimize

boil down

epitomize

evaporate

wipe away

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkɒntɹækt/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).