contract
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Is contract a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (law) An 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.
2. (law) The document containing such an agreement.
3. (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.Synonyms: contract law
4. (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.Examples: "The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."informal
5. (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.Examples: "But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel"not-comparableobsolete
2. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.Examples: "But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte."not-comparableobsolete
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.Examples: "The snail’s body contracted into its shell."; "to contract one’s sphere of action"; "We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant."Synonyms: abate, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, shrinkambitransitive
2. (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.Examples: "The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”."
3. (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.Examples: "The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses."intransitive
4. (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).Examples: "We have just contracted new pest control services."transitive
5. (transitive, archaic) To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).Examples: "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."archaictransitive
6. (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.Examples: "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."; "to contract a debt"; "Smit with the love of Siſter-arts we came, / And met congenial, mingling flame with flame; / Like friendly colours found our arts unite, / Each from each contract new ſtrength and light."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary