Contracts
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Contracts
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.
"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.
"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.
verb
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
"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.
"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.
"to contract for carrying the mail"
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SYNONYMS
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ANTONYMS
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