Contract 1
Definition: To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Contract 2
Definition: To bring on; to incur; to acquire;
as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. Contract 3
Definition: To enter into, with mutual obligations;
to make a bargain or covenant for. Contract 4
Definition: To betroth; to affiance. Contract 5
Definition: To shorten by omitting a letter or letters
or by reducing two or more vowels
or syllables
to one. Contract 6
Definition: 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. Contract 7
Definition: To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. Contract 8
Definition: Contracted; as, a contract verb. Contract 9
Definition: Contracted; affianced; betrothed. Contract 10
Definition: 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.
Contract 11
Definition: A formal writing which contains
the agreement of parties, with the terms
and conditions,
and which serves
as a proof of the obligation. Contract 12
Definition: The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. contract 13
Definition: a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points
toward game only for the number of tricks
he bid contract 14
Definition: a binding agreement between two or more persons
that is enforceable by law contract 15
Definition: (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes
the contract setting the number of tricks
that the bidder must make contract 16
Definition: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
contract 17
Definition: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
contract 18
Definition: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
contract 19
Definition: make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
contract 20
Definition: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
contract 21
Definition: enter into a contractual arrangement
contract 22
Definition: make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
contract 23
Definition: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
contract 24
Definition: engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
