Contract Meaning in Spanish
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• Contract
Definition & Meaning
- (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.
- (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
- (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract ones sphere of action.
- (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
- (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- (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.
- (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- (n.) To betroth; to affiance.
- (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
- (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 system
Definition & Meaning
- () The sweating system.
- () 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.
• Contract tablet
Definition & Meaning
- () 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.
• Contracted
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
- (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
- (imp. & p. p.) of Contract
- (a.) Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
• Contractedness
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
• Contractibility
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
• Contractible
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Capable of contraction.
• Contractibleness
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Contractibility.
• Contractile
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
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