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contract English

Meaning contract meaning

What does contract mean?
Definitions in simple English

contract Noun

— A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down. If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours. In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty. My father’s employment contract is for forty years. You must look over the contract before you sign it.

contract Verb

— If something contracts, it gets smaller. As the wood dries out, it contracts. — If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them. We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office. When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out. — If you contract a disease, you become sick with it. It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases. He contracted the flu.

contract

— noun a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law — verb enter into a contractual arrangement — verb (= sign) engage by written agreement They signed two new pitchers for the next season — noun (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make — verb (= take, get) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness He got AIDS She came down with pneumonia She took a chill — verb (= compress, squeeze, press) squeeze or press together she compressed her lips the spasm contracted the muscle — verb (= shrink) become smaller or draw together The fabric shrank The balloon shrank — noun a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid — verb make smaller The heat contracted the woollen garment — verb (= narrow) make or become more narrow or restricted The selection was narrowed The road narrowed — verb (= condense, concentrate) compress or concentrate Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan — verb (= shorten, reduce) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements The manuscript must be shortened

Synonyms contract synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as contract?

contract English » English

agreement shrink shorten covenant reduce treaty compact pact narrow get promise compress commitment undertake shrivel indenture friendship draw in deal catch bond take deed cut constrict condense written agreement tighten lessen bargain abridge abbreviate tense take on stipulation sign make a deal make a contract foreshorten engage diminish curtail conclude wrinkle squeeze sign up roll up lease knit decrease

Topics contract topics

What do people use contract to talk about?
Person Healthy

Sick
Social behavior Law

Legal contract
Physical actions Posture

Move a part of the body
States Quantity More

Decrease
States Big

Small
States Big Long

Short, not long
Social behavior Law Legal contract

Break a contract
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Hire, rent

Conjugation contract conjugation

How do you conjugate contract?

contract · verb

Examples contract examples

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Simple sentences

Jane was on top of the world when she got a record contract.
Tom has just been let go from his job. Because he had signed the employer's non-competition contract, he must now choose among relocation, a significant career change, unemployment or litigation.
You'll need to sign a contract.
We made a contract with the firm.
He was compelled to sign the contract.
The contract, if you were forced to sign it, is invalid.
That's against the contract.
They are satisfied with the contract.
The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.
Here's the key, here's the contract.
If we don't finish this job, we'll lose the next contract.
A contract with that company is worth next to nothing.
The contract is in the bag, so let's go out and celebrate.
You should look over the contract before you sign it.
Please sign your name on the contract.
Mr Smith is accused of breach of contract.
Mr Johnson suddenly changed his mind and signed the contract.
This contract binds me to pay them 10 thousand dollars.
No ambiguities are allowed in a contract.
According to the terms of the contract, your payment was due on May 31st.
I carefully explored the contract.
You'd better examine the contract carefully before signing.
The new contract enables us to demand whatever we want.

Movie subtitles

And that contract you were talking about.
During the contract, that's what I heard.
I made my contract with you.
And now, with the new railroad contract, business is booming, my poor Lee is terribly overworked.
The other halves will be given to you in thirty days, that is to say after execution of clauses of the contract.
I beg you, Peter, for God's sake, take the money and return the contract to me.
If you don't like auctions, we can play contract.
A contract, confirmed by cable.
Do you happen to have a contract with Miss Jones?
Do you have that dame under contract?
I don't need no contract with my artists.
But she wrote me you put her under contract.
This trick is going to cost Madame a suit for breach of contract.
I suppose I can cancel the Vienna contract.
I made my contract with you. You told me how dangerous this power was.
I'm going to talk about our contract!
You don't care about the contract!
He's a judge of liquor, wizard at contract. plays the piano. anything you want.
Then, in June, he encountered contract problems with Universal.
He was born Richmond Reed Carradine, but his name was changed to John Carradine when he went under contract to Twentieth Century Fox in 1935.
A covert department of the CIA, the Special Activities Division has activated a kill contract on you.
The leading lady arrives to sign her contract.
We can sign a contract right away.
I'm sorry but Mrs. Wood has signed. an exclusive 10 year contract with Mr. Wallstein.
We will draw up a contract immediately.
I.. have taken the liberty. Of drawing up a partnership contract.
It'd be funny if you saw me turn up with a new contract.

News and current affairs

Democrats oppose most nondefense spending cuts, arguing that reductions would cause the economy to contract.
If we fail to settle on a new social contract between the state and the markets soon, those markets may indeed move elsewhere.
I am not accusing Putin's government of the contract killing of Politkovskaya.
So there is great tension everywhere between how the public, and how doctors regard a possible contract in the field of assisted dying.
In law, when two criminals seal a contract with the blood of their victims, that act remains a crime, even if the two criminals later have a falling out and spray bullets at one another.
If home prices fall sharply in that city, the drop in the value of the home would be offset by an increase in the value of the futures contract.
While the national government expands, state governments, such as California's, contract.
For unless these changes are made, how can businessmen know how to ascertain the lawfulness of the actions of Chinese officials, such as imposing fees or penalties, refusing to award contracts, or imposing conditions on contract approvals?
Over the last few decades, China has begun to practice modern contract law and joined the World Trade Organization, committing itself to international rules governing trade and investment.
They all provide some degree of effective property rights protection and contract enforcement, maintain macroeconomic stability, seek to integrate into the world economy, and ensure an appropriate environment for productive diversification and innovation.
But often the reason is that the host country considers a contract to be unfair.
So, even without corruption, it is not surprising when a future government demands that the contract be renegotiated.
The result should be a contract that is as fair as possible under the given circumstances - and perceived as such.
Even more provocative are the next steps: a plan to revamp the standard work contract and to require that all workers be invited to vote after eight days of a strike.
They do not derive from a social contract.
An alternative would be to establish some form of cooperative or contract-based farm association that can negotiate fair prices.
We need a new contract among European nations, generations, and social classes, which implies difficult choices.
Governments should therefore restrict spending cuts to those that will not cause the economy to contract.
Their big corporations helped entrench racist regimes with notorious contract-labor systems that amounted to little more than slavery.
With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position.
Indeed, the deflationary spiral, particularly in Greece and Spain, is causing output to contract so rapidly that further spending cuts and tax increases are not reducing budget deficits and public debt relative to GDP.
Anyone seeking to compare a public-service job with the private sector in negotiating an employment contract should simply seek work in the private sector rather than for the public good.
This was clearly demonstrated late last year when a South Korean consortium won a contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates late last year, beating out the French.
And, without that, all it has is a recession strategy that makes austerity and reform self-defeating, because, if output continues to contract, deficit and debt ratios will continue to rise to unsustainable levels.

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