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noun

• 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.

  Example: Marriage is a contract.

• 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.

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

• An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

  Example: The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.

• The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

adjective

• Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

• Not abstract; concrete.

verb

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

  Example: The snail's body contracted into its shell.

• (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

  Example: The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".

• To enter into a contract with.

• To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

• To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

  Example: to contract for carrying the mail

• To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

  Example: She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.

• To gain or acquire (an illness).

• To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

• To betroth; to affiance.