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noun

1. A binding agreement between two or more persons or parties
2. A business arrangement for the supply of goods or services at a fixed price

   "make parts on contract"

3. The act of marriage or an agreement to marry
4. A document describing the terms of a contract

   "Have you signed the contract yet?"

5. The final bid to win a specified number of tricks in bridge
6. An order or arrangement for a hired assassin to kill someone

   "His enemies put out a contract on him."

verb

1. To bring on oneself especially inadvertently incur

   "contracting debts"

2. To become affected with

   "contract pneumonia"

3. To establish or undertake by contract

   "contract a job"

4. Betroth
5. Limit, restrict

   "contract the scope of their activities"

6. Knit, wrinkle

   "A frown contracted his brow."

7. To draw together concentrate

   "He contracted his armies into one force"

8. To reduce to smaller size by or as if by squeezing or forcing together

   "contract a muscle"

9. To shorten (a word) by omitting one or more sounds or letters

   "Contract "forecastle" to "fo'c'sle.""

10. To make a contract

    "The builder contracted with them to build a deck."

11. To draw together so as to become diminished in size

    "Metal contracts on cooling."

adjective

1. Hired to execute a contract see contract

   "a contract worker"

noun

1. A bridge game distinguished by the fact that overtricks do not count toward game or slam bonuses

idiom

1. To agree by contract to pay someone outside an organization to perform (a job)

   "The company contracted out its manufacturing jobs."

noun

1. Contract bridge in which partnerships are determined by the bidding

noun

1. An actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each

noun

1. An employment contract in which a worker disavows membership in and agrees not to join a labor union in order to get a job

idiom

1. Failure to do what a contract requires

   "They sued him for breach of contract."

idiom

1. According to the terms stated in a contract by a legal agreement

   "We are bound by contract to pay the full price."