Contra Meaning in Spanish

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1. () A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.

1. (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.
2. (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
3. (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.
4. (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
5. (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
6. (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.

1. (n.) Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.

1. (n.) One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.

1. (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
2. (n.) The lowest stringed instrument of the violin family.

1. (n.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.

1. (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.
2. (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
3. (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
4. (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
5. (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
6. (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract ones sphere of action.
7. (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
8. (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
9. (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.
10. (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
11. (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
12. (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
13. (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

1. () The sweating system.
2. () The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.

1. () A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.