How to pronounce “contract”

Meaning

• [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.
• (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) The document containing such an agreement.
• (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
• (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
• (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
• [Adjective]
• (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
• (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
• (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
• (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
• (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
• (transitive, archaic) To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
• (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
• (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
• To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
• To betroth; to affiance.

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