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Contract   /kˈɑntrˌækt/  /kəntrˈækt/   Listen
Contract

noun
1.
A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law.
2.
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make.  Synonym: declaration.
3.
A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid.  Synonym: contract bridge.
verb
(past & past part. contracted; pres. part. contracting)
1.
Enter into a contractual arrangement.  Synonym: undertake.
2.
Engage by written agreement.  Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up.
3.
Squeeze or press together.  Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze.  "The spasm contracted the muscle"
4.
Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.  Synonyms: get, take.  "She came down with pneumonia" , "She took a chill"
5.
Become smaller or draw together.  Synonym: shrink.  "The balloon shrank"
6.
Make smaller.
7.
Compress or concentrate.  Synonyms: concentrate, condense.
8.
Make or become more narrow or restricted.  Synonym: narrow.  "The road narrowed"
9.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.



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"Contract" Quotes from Famous Books



... Generosity, on a large and comprehensive scale, seems to dictate the making a signal example of this gentleman; but waving that, these are only the private motives inducing him to surrender, and do not enter into the contract of Colonel Clarke. I have the highest idea of those contracts which take place between nation and nation, at war, and would be the last on earth to do any thing in violation of them. I can find nothing in those books usually recurred to as testimonials of the laws and usages of nature and ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... of the slave trade in this year was followed by a number of captures by U.S. cruisers, giving rise to the old difficulty in regard to the disposition of the cargoes. The Act of March 3, 1819, which had long fallen into disuse, was revived, and a contract made with the Colonization Society to transport and maintain for a twelvemonth the recaptured Africans already on the Government's hands. The substitution of small, swift steamers for the craft of older days so increased the efficiency of the navy that captures were made in rapid succession. ...
— History of Liberia - Johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science • J.H.T. McPherson

... was lost. Again Bragg withdrew. On New Year's Day, '63, Lincoln freed the slaves—and no rebel was more indignant than was Chadwick Buford. The Kentucky Unionists, in general, protested: the Confederates had broken the Constitution, they said; the Unionists were helping to maintain that contract and now the Federals had broken the Constitution, and their own high ground was swept from beneath their feet. They protested as bitterly as their foes, be it said, against the Federals breaking up political conventions with bayonets and against the ruin of innocent citizens ...
— The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come • John Fox

... Czecho-Slovaks from other countries admitted to be transferred into the Czecho-Slovak army or to contract a voluntary engagement with this army for the duration ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek

... that which is God's link in the chain? It does not seem as if the legal contract could change or strengthen my feelings materially, and while honoring the inviolable rite of marriage, which is God's law and society's safety, I know that nothing can more surely bind me to her, so that the spirit, the vital part of ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe


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