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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.
(legal) 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.
(legal) 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.

(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.
(transitive) To enter into a contract with.
(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
(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.

Many persons [...] had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity [...] prohibited by law.
win a contract
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim[...]
Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.
Each from each contract new strength and light.
to contract a debt
She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
to contract for carrying the mail
Marriage is a contract.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.
The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Years contracting to a moment.
to contract one's sphere of action
The snail's body contracted into its shell.
But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.
The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
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.

Partisiipin perfekti	contracted	Imperfekti	contracted
Partisiipin preesens	contracting	Monikko	contracts
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	contracts	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	contracteth (vanhahtava)

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