Definitions for contracted

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contracted con·tract·ed

Spelling: [kuh n-trak-tid]

IPA: /kənˈtræk tɪd/

Contracted is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 599 anagrams from letters in contracted (accdenortt).

Definitions for contracted

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. drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.
2. condensed; abridged.
3. (of the mind, outlook, etc.) narrow or illiberal; restricted:
4. 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 contracted

First recorded in 1540-50; contract + -ed²

Examples for contracted

Also, a premium can be contracted for, in the way of free association, for skilled labour.

He was dying of inflammation of the liver, contracted in Senegal.

Yet none of his family members, one of whom was sleeping in the same bed as him, contracted the disease.

Despite intimate, long flights with Ebola patients, many of whom are very sick, no one at Phoenix has contracted the disease.

(You are now making deliveries to your trade as contracted).

He also contracted to supply the commissariat, which he did with advantage to the army and profit to himself.

A turning point came some 25 years ago, when her close friend Carol contracted ovarian cancer.

A great debt has been contracted in securing to us and our posterity the Union.

He contracted pneumonia, but he recovered and returned to demonstrating.

Craig Spencer, the New York doctor who contracted Ebola in Guinea, was declared “cured” of the virus last week.