contract
Definitions
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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...
- The document containing such an agreement.
- vt. [a disease] contraer.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
- Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.
- Games a. The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.
- A paid assignment to murder someone: put out a contract on the mobster's life.
- To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement: contract a marriage.
- To acquire or incur: contract obligations; contract a serious illness.
Equivalents
Deutschabschließenannehmeneinen Vertrag abschließeneinen Vertrag schließeneinengeneinschrumpfenerkranken ankontrahierenKontraktschließenschrumpfensich einengensich etwas zuziehensich infizierensich verkürzensich vertraglich verpflichtensich zusammenziehenübereinkommenÜbereinkunftverkürzenVertragzusammenziehen
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Afrikaanskontrak
Esperantokontrakti
Eestileping
Հայերենպայմանագիր
Lietuviųsutartis
Latviešulīgums
Македонскидоговор
Монголгэрээ
Bahasa Melayukontrak
Русскийдоговорзаключать договорзаключа́ть соглаше́ниеконтрактподхвати́тьподхва́тыватьсжатьсжатьсясжиматьсжиматьсясократи́тьсократитьсясокраща́тьсокращатьсясу́живатьсясу́зиться
Slovenčinazmluva
Svenskaackordavtalavtalabetingdra ihop sigentreprenadfördragkontraktkrympalegaminskasöverenskommelse
Kiswahilikandarasi
Українськадо́гові́рконтрактпідхопитипідхоплюватискоротитискороти́тисяскорочуватискоро́чуватисястиска́тистискатисястискуватистискуватисястиснутистиснутися
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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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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