Usually means: Agreement creating obligations enforceable by law.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. contract: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contract: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contract, contract: Wordnik
  7. contract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contract: Wiktionary
  9. contract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contract: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contract: Dictionary.com
  13. contract: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contract: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contract (BDSM), Contract (canon law), Contract (conflict), Contract (disambiguation), Contract (software), Contract, The Contract: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contract: Rhymezone
  19. Contract, contract (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contract: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contract: Free Dictionary
  22. contract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contract: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. contract: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. contract: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. contract: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. contract: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. Contract: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  11. Contract: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  12. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Contract: INSOLVENCY
  15. contract: Legal dictionary
  16. contract: Financial dictionary
  17. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  18. Contract: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  19. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  20. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  21. Contract: bizterms.net
  22. Contract: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contract: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. contract: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. contract: Political
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. contract: Idioms
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contract: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contract: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contract, contract: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Contract: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
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  4. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
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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