Definition of Contract

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Contract

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

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

To betroth; to affiance.

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

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

Contracted; as, a contract verb.

Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

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Contract Quotations

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Conan O'Brien

Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Conan O'Brien

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Neil Gaiman

Contract Translations

contract in Afrikaans is kontrak
contract in Dutch is verbintenis, contract
contract in French is contractez, contractent, contrat, contractons
contract in Italian is contratto
contract in Latin is contraho, pactum, pactum
contract in Portuguese is contrato
contract in Spanish is concertar, contrata, contrato
contract in Swedish is kontrakt

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