Contract is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRACT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to decrease in size
• decrease in size, number, or range
• (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body
• shorten (a word or phrase) by combination or elision
• enter into a formal and legally binding agreement
• choose to be involved in (a scheme)
• choose to withdraw from or not become involved in a scheme
• secure specified rights or undertake specified obligations in a formal and legally binding agreement
• impose an obligation on (someone) to do something by means of a formal agreement
• arrange for work to be done by another organization
• formally enter into (a marriage)
• enter into (a friendship or other relationship)
• catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent)
• become liable to pay (a debt)
• 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.
• enter into a contractual arrangement
• engage by written agreement
• squeeze or press together
• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• become smaller or draw together
• make smaller
• compress or concentrate
• make or become more narrow or restricted
• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
• make a formal agreement (to do something)
NOUN:
• a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law
• the branch of law concerned with the making and observation of contracts
• an arrangement for someone to be killed by a hired assassin
• a formal agreement to marry
• (document setting out) a formal agreement
• 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.
• 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.
• a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
• a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
• the declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trumps
ADJECTIVE:
• Contracted; as, a contract verb.
• Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to decrease in size or volume

Words related to CONTRACT

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Words that contain CONTRACT

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How to use CONTRACT in a sentence

• Oh yes, oh yes! I will have it in the contract! You shall be weighed.
• Gilles, by a contract of sale which was in that age regarded as fictitious and illusory.
• Together we bought the property, having formed a stock company, and the contract for cutting the timber was also secured.
• With this last theatre Dryden particularly connected himself, by a contract to be hereafter mentioned.
• He was rewarded with the sum of two hundred dollars above his contract.
• Come on, show me that contract you drew up between me and my mistress and the Madame.
• Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
• Therefore, those that are not fit to lead a single life ought to contract matrimony.
• These drops they mix together, and afterward mix with a little wine, which is then drunk by the two or more who bled themselves and who wish to contract the friendship.
• The manager thrust a copy of her contract under her nose and turned her into the street.
• In the year 1840 the Government was induced to enter into a contract with Mr.
• In the nature of things a law may impair a future contract, and therefore such contract is within the protection of the Constitution.
• Indeed, the entire contract was of force only if Mr.
• It was still on my lips as with a general movement we rose from the table about which we had been grouped during the absorbing business of drawing up the contract.
• At the peace Hulot had secured for them the contract for forage from Alsace, not knowing that he would presently be sent to Strasbourg to prepare for the campaign of 1806.
• The first spring work of any importance was gathering the horses to fill a contract we had with Captain Byler.
• The buyer was working on commission, and the larger the quantity he could contract for, the better he was suited.
• Her husband could not give her any, because there could be no contract between a married pair.
• He had brought his own outfit down to receive the cattle, and as his contract called for a million and a half pounds on foot, I assisted him in buying sixteen hundred more.
• He secured a contract for two ships, and capital readily interested itself in his project.
• Miss Davenport frankly told Bok that with such an instinctive objection as his mother seemed to have, he was right to follow her advice and the contract was not to be thought of.

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