Definitions for contract
  • Contract (n.) - To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
  • Contract (n.) - To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
  • Contract (n.) - To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
  • Contract (n.) - To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
  • Contract (n.) - To betroth; to affiance.
  • Contract (n.) - To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
  • Contract (v. i.) - 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 (v. i.) - To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
  • Contract (a.) - Contracted; as, a contract verb.
  • Contract (a.) - Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
  • Contract (n.) - 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 (n.) - A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
  • Contract (n.) - The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
  • Contractability - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractable - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractably - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractant - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractation - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contracted (a.) - Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
  • Contracted (a.) - Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
  • Contracted (a.) - Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
  • Contracted (imp. & p. p.) - of Contract
  • Contractedly - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contracter - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractibility (n.) - Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
  • Contractible (a.) - Capable of contraction.
  • Contractibleness (n.) - Contractibility.
  • Contractibly - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) - of Contract
  • Contraction (n.) - The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
  • Contraction (n.) - The process of shortening an operation.
  • Contraction (n.) - The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
  • Contraction (n.) - Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
  • Contraction (n.) - The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
  • Contraction (n.) - A marriage contract.
  • Contractional - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractions - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contraction's - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractive (a.) - Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
  • Contractively - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractiveness - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contractly - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
  • Contracts - Sorry, we do not have a definition for this word
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