Meaning of contract | Babel Free

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1. 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.
2. a legal written agreement. He has a four-year contract (of employment) with us; The firm won a contract for three new aircraft. kontrak عَقْد، إلتِزام، تَعَهُّد، إتِّفاقِيَّه договор contrato kontrakt der Vertrag, der Auftrag kontrakt; aftale συμβόλαιοcontrato leping قرارداد sopimus contratחוזה करारनामा utanačenje, ugovor szerződés kontrak samningur contratto 契約 계약 kontraktas, sutartis kontrakts; līgums; vienošanās perjanjian kontrak contractkontrakt, avtalekontrakt, umowa قرار داد contracto ...
3. 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.
4. a person or firm that promises to do work or supply goods at a fixed rate. a building contractor. kontrakteur مُقاوِل، مُتَعَهِّد предприемач empreiteiro podnikatel, dodavatel der Unternehmer entreprenør; leverandør εργολάβοςcontratista töövõtja, hankija پیمانکار urakoitsija entrepreneur/-eure קבלן ठेकेदार ugovaratelj, poduzetnik, dobavljač vállalkozó kontraktor verktaki imprenditore, appaltatore 請負人 계약자 rangovas, tiekėjas līgumslēdzēja puse; darba uzņēmējs kontraktor aannemerentreprenørprzed...
5. The document containing such an agreement.
6. vt. [a disease] contraer.
7. A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
8. An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
9. An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
   informal
10. The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
11. The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
12. Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.
13. Games a. The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.
    Games
14. A paid assignment to murder someone: put out a contract on the mobster's life.
15. To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement: contract a marriage.
16. To acquire or incur: contract obligations; contract a serious illness.

Equivalents

Examples

“sign a contract”

“write up a contract”

“read a contract”

“countersign a contract”

“legally-binding contract”

“unwritten contract”

“Marriage is a contract.”

“British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.”

“The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.”

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