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▸ noun: (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
▸ noun: (law) The document containing such an agreement.
▸ noun: (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
▸ noun: (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
▸ noun: (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
▸ verb: (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
▸ verb: (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
▸ verb: (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
▸ verb: (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
▸ verb: (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
▸ verb: To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
▸ verb: To betroth; to affiance.
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employment contract,
lease agreement,
service contract,
franchise agreement,
loagreement,
insurance contract,
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