Definitions for contract

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contract con·tract

Spelling: [noun, adjective, verb 15–17, 21, 22 kon-trakt; verb k

IPA: /noun, adjective, verb 15–17, 21, 22 ˈkɒn trækt; verb kənˈtrækt/

Contract is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in contract (accnortt).

Definitions for contract

noun

1. an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
2. an agreement enforceable by law.
3. the written form of such an agreement.
4. the division of law dealing with contracts.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. the formal agreement of marriage; betrothal.
8. Slang. an arrangement for a hired assassin to kill a specific person.

Idioms

1. put out a contract on, Slang. to hire or attempt to hire an assassin to kill (someone):

adjective

1. under contract; governed or arranged by special contract:

Verb phrases

1. contract out, to hire an outside contractor to produce or do.

verb (used with object)

1. to draw together or into smaller compass; draw the parts of together:
2. to wrinkle:
3. to shorten (a word, phrase, etc.) by combining or omitting some of its elements: .
4. to get or acquire, as by exposure to something contagious:
5. to incur, as a liability or obligation:
6. to settle or establish by agreement:
7. to assign (a job, work, project, etc.) by contract:
8. to enter into an agreement with:
9. to enter into (friendship, acquaintance, etc.).
10. to betroth.

verb (used without object)

1. to become drawn together or reduced in compass; become smaller; shrink:
2. to enter into an agreement:

Origin of contract

1275-1325; (noun) Middle English (Anglo-French) Latin contractus undertaking a transaction, agreement, equivalent to contrac-, variant stem of contrahere to draw in, bring together, enter int

Examples for contract

I knew only that the hit was commissioned; the man who took the contract was a specialist.

You sign this contract, which is exactly like all the others we use, and I'll hand over your check.

Michigan supposedly offered 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh a $42 million contract, which would him the highest-paid coach in the NCAA.

I might give you a thousand for a contract, an' losin' and winnin' mounts when you had a leg up.

A 1907 contract leases the plot of land to the Belgika corporation for five years, but it stayed for much longer.

At any rate, she has less freedom and more obligations under her contract.

Meanwhile, Marino promises “radical changes” and vows to check every contract the city has—to see if they are valid.

It then begins to shrink and contract with the greatest uniformity.

The contract, however, seems not to have been carried out by the composer.

The Senate Intelligence Committee report says they secured a contract with the CIA in 2006 valued “in excess of $180 million.”