ALL meanings of contract
con·tract
C c - countable noun contract A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money. 3
- verb contract If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you. 3
- verb contract When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter. 3
- verb contract When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller. 3
- verb contract If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it. 3
- verb contract If you contract a marriage, alliance, or other relationship with someone, you arrange to have that relationship with them. 3
- countable noun contract If there is a contract on a person or on their life, someone has made an arrangement to have them killed. 3
- verb contract to make or become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc 3
- verb contract to enter into an agreement with (a person, company, etc) to deliver (goods or services) or to do (something) on mutually agreed and binding terms, often in writing 3
- verb contract to draw or be drawn together; coalesce or cause to coalesce 3
- verb contract to acquire, incur, or become affected by (a disease, liability, debt, etc) 3
- verb contract to shorten (a word or phrase) by the omission of letters or syllables, usually indicated in writing by an apostrophe 3
- verb contract to unite (two vowels) or (of two vowels) to be united within a word or at a word boundary so that a new long vowel or diphthong is formed 3
- verb contract to wrinkle or draw together (the brow or a muscle) 3
- verb contract to arrange (a marriage) for; betroth 3
- noun contract a formal agreement between two or more parties 3
- noun contract a document that states the terms of such an agreement 3
- noun contract the branch of law treating of contracts 3
- noun contract marriage considered as a formal agreement 3
- noun contract (in the bidding sequence before play) the highest bid, which determines trumps and the number of tricks one side must try to make 3
- noun contract the number and suit of these tricks 3
- noun contract a criminal agreement to kill a particular person in return for an agreed sum of money 3
- noun contract (as modifier) 3
- noun contract an agreement between two or more people to do something, esp. one formally set forth in writing and enforceable by law; compact; covenant 3
- noun contract a formal agreement of marriage or betrothal 3
- noun contract a document containing the terms of a contract 3
- noun contract the branch of law having to do with contracts 3
- noun contract an assignment to murder someone for pay 3
- noun contract the highest bid in an auction 3
- noun contract the number of tricks, and the suit or no-trump preference, stated in such a bid 3
- noun contract contract bridge 3
- verb transitive contract to enter upon, or undertake, by contract 3
- verb transitive contract to hire (a person, business, etc.) to perform under contract 3
- verb transitive contract to get, acquire, or incur 3
- verb transitive contract to reduce in size; draw together; narrow; shrink; shorten 3
- verb transitive contract to draw (the brow or brows) together; knit 3
- verb transitive contract to narrow in scope; restrict 3
- verb transitive contract to betroth 3
- verb transitive contract to shorten (a word or phrase) by the omission of a letter or sound, as in I'm, e'er, can't 3
- intransitive verb contract to make a contract; agree formally 3
- intransitive verb contract to become reduced in size or bulk; draw together; shrink; narrow; shorten 3
- noun contract A contract is an official agreement between two or more companies or people, in which each party has rights and obligations. 3
- noun contract an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified. 1
- noun contract an agreement enforceable by law. 1
- noun contract the written form of such an agreement. 1
- noun contract the division of law dealing with contracts. 1
- noun contract Also called contract bridge. a variety of bridge in which the side that wins the bid can earn toward game only that number of tricks named in the contract, additional points being credited above the line. Compare auction bridge. 1
- noun contract a commitment by the declarer and his or her partner to take six tricks plus the number specified by the final bid made. the final bid itself. the number of tricks so specified, plus six. 1
- noun contract the formal agreement of marriage; betrothal. 1
- noun contract Slang. an arrangement for a hired assassin to kill a specific person. 1