[
US
/ˈkɑnˌtɹækt, kənˈtɹækt/
]
VERB
-
become smaller or draw together
The balloon shrank
The fabric shrank - enter into a contractual arrangement
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make smaller
The heat contracted the woollen garment -
squeeze or press together
the spasm contracted the muscle
she compressed her lips -
compress or concentrate
Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan -
engage by written agreement
They signed two new pitchers for the next season -
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
The manuscript must be shortened -
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
She came down with pneumonia
He got AIDS
She took a chill -
make or become more narrow or restricted
The selection was narrowed
The road narrowed
NOUN
- (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
How To Use contract In A Sentence
- Someone who really wanted to stop unsanctioned immigration would begin here, by busting the small contractors who employ these workers on a contingent basis.
- About 10,000 Irish patients contract the superbug each year.
- This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch
- In July, the project came to a standstill for nine days when workers stopped to oppose the use of non-union contract labour on the site.
- Parker also said that much of what Rhee achieved in contract talks already existed in D.C. law but was not used by her predecessors, including the power to weaken seniority protections for teachers who are "excessed," or let go from their jobs because of school closures. D.C. Teachers' Union election will affect survival of Rhee's initiatives
- The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.
- ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
- For the contractor, the bid estimate is usually regarded as the budget estimate, which will be used for control purposes as well as for planning construction financing.
- The post-contract duty involves duty of notification, duty of giving assistance, duty of keeping secret, duty of care and duty of no competition in the same industry and so on.
- When an agent makes a contract either the principal is liable or the agent is liable for a breach of authority.
