Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
- (law) 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.
- (law) The document containing such an agreement.
- (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
Verbi
- (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
- (transitive) To enter into a contract with (someone or something).
- (transitive, archaic) To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement).
- (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- To betroth; to affiance.
Adjektiivi
- (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
Esimerkit
- 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.
- But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.
- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
- to contract one's sphere of action
- Years contracting to a moment.
- In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
- The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
- We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.
- Many persons [...] had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity [...] prohibited by law.
- to contract for carrying the mail
- She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
- to contract a debt
- Each from each contract new strength and light.
- Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.
- An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim[...]
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
- win a contract
- ~ muscles
- GDP may contract three percent.
- ~ HIV
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | contracted | Imperfekti | contracted |
| Partisiipin preesens | contracting | Monikko | contracts |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | contracts | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | contracteth (vanhahtava) |