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contract
Noun
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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
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If something contracts, it gets smaller.
As the wood dries out, it contracts.
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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.
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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.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
carriage
Noun
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A vehicle on wheels, usually pulled by a horse.
Jack Hampton rode on his carriage to the wedding.
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A railway car, pulled by a locomotive.
Sarah said that she would be on the third carriage of the train.
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The way somebody moves and walks.
His noble carriage made nobody suspect that he was a poor pauper.