Contract Synonyms & Definitions

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• ContractDefinition & Meaning in English

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.

• Contract systemDefinition & Meaning in English

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.

• ContractiblenessDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Contractibility.