Etymology : Middle English, from Latin contractus, from contrahere to draw together, make a contract, reduce in size, from com- + trahere to draw
Pronunciation : 'kän-"trakt
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. agreement, pact, covenant; (Slang) arrangement with a hired assassin to kill a person. create a formal agreement; get; make smaller; reduce; become smaller. contract\con*tract"\ (k&obreve;n*trăkt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. contracted; p. pr. & vb. n. contracting.] [l. contractus, p. p. of contrahere to contract; con- + trahere to draw: cf. f. contracter. see:
trace, and cf. contract, n.].
2. to draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. in all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties. h. more.
3. to draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
4. to bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. each from each contract new strength and light. such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
5. to enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. we have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen. akluyt. many persons had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity prohibited by law.
6. to betroth; to affiance. the truth is, she and i, long since contracted, are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
7. (gram.) to shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
8. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
9. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
10. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
11. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
12. To betroth; to affiance.
13. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
14. 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.
15. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
16. Contracted; as, a contract verb.
17. Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
18. 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.
19. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
20. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" enter into a contractual arrangement make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment".
21. 1. A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money. The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000.
22. If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you. You can contract with us to deliver your cargo The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.
23. When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter. Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles. + contraction contractions con·trac·tion the contraction and expansion of blood vessels Foods and fluids are mixed in the stomach by its muscular contractions.
24. When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller. The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month.
25. If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it. He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer contracted by women.
26. If you contract a marriage, alliance, or other relationship with someone, you arrange to have that relationship with them. She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman. = enter into.
27. If there is a contract on a person or on their life, someone has made an arrangement to have them killed. The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him.
28. If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time. The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers. Agreement between two or more parties that creates for each party a duty to do something (e.g., to provide goods at a certain price according to a specified schedule) or a duty not to do something (e.g., to divulge an employer's trade secrets or financial status to third parties). A party's failure to honour a contract allows the other party or parties to bring an action for damages in a court of law, though arbitration may also be pursued in an effort to keep the matter confidential. In order to be valid, a contract must be entered into both willingly and freely. A contract that violates this principle, including one made with a legal minor or a person deemed mentally incompetent, may be declared unenforceable. A contract also must have a lawful objective.
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