contractnoun詞源 1/ˈkɒntɹækt/

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  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.

  • sign a contract
  • write up a contract
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  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.

  • He worked a six-month contract on an oil rig.
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  lawAn 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.

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  lawThe document containing such an agreement.

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  lawA part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

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  informalAn order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

  • The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
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  bridgegamesThe declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

contractadj詞源 1/ˈkɒntɹækt/

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  obsoleteContracted; affianced; betrothed.

  • But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel
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  obsoleteNot abstract; concrete.

  • But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.

contractverb詞源 2/kənˈtɹækt/

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  To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

  • The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
  • to contract one’s sphere of action
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  grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsTo shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

  • The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
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  To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.

  • The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
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  To enter into a contract with (someone or something).

  • We have just contracted new pest control services.
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  archaicTo enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).

  • We have contracted an inviolable amitie, peace, and league with the aforesaid Queene.
  • Many persons […] had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity […] prohibited by law.
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  To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

  • She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
  • to contract a debt
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  To gain or acquire (an illness).

  • At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
  • An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim […]
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  To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

  • And didſt contract, and purſe thy brow together, / As if thou then hadſt ſhut vp in thy braine, / Some horrible counſell: […]