contract

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. (not-comparable, obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) 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. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
4. (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
5. (archaic, transitive) To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
6. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
7. (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
8. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
9. To betroth; to affiance.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒntɹækt/

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).

Synonyms

agreement

shrink

covenant

shorten

reduce

treaty

compact

pact

narrow

get

compress

promise

commitment

shrivel

undertake

indenture

deal

draw in

friendship

catch

bond

cut

take

condense

constrict

deed

abridge

bargain

written agreement

lessen

tighten

abbreviate

engage

foreshorten

stipulation

sign

diminish

curtail

make a contract

make a deal

take on

tense

conclude

squeeze

arrangement

roll up

knit

sign up

declaration

decrease

Translations

contrat

contracter

Vertrag

contratto

contrato

contrarre

contraer

contract

contrato

contrair

kontrakt

sich zusammenziehen

Kontrakt

συμβόλαιο

umowa

Sentences

And a new contract goes with it .