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
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Charlie Sheen
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.
Paul Gascoigne
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
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
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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