Word Finder - contract

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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.

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Marriage is a contract.

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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.

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A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

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An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

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

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The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

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Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

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Not abstract; concrete.

Your contract goes on for years.

There's stuff I know...I don't want to be a squealer, but they got a contract on me, for God's sake!

It may be created by contract, by statute or by judgment.

They got a contract out on me!

I issued the contract to Gabe.

This contract is usually renewed from year to year.

Ol' Arthur didn't believe us when we told him there was a contract out on him and he went back out on the street.

He signed a contract.

Provided the parties could agree, the Code left them free to contract as a rule.

The relations of their bishops, priests or other ministers and lay office-bearers inter se and to their lay folk depend upon contract; and these Y P P contracts will be enforced by the ordinary courts of law.

They're gone and the street says they're history and now there's a contract out on me!

Marriage is pronounced a civil contract.

Randy got money—lots of it—just for signing a contract.

He doesn.t have a contract out on him yet, Gabriel said.

The decision will not affect the validity of the remaining contract provisions.

College graduates were affected by the temporary contract workers flooding the job market.

The manager will take solace in signing a new contract at the club.

Your rental agreement is a binding legal contract.

Dogs who contract this parasite suffer significant illness and can even die.

The first place winner will receive a one-year modeling contract.

It cannot then be excited to contract by any agent, though the inexcitable period is more brief for strong than for weak stimuli.

James retired to Brussels, the king having previously signed a declaration that he "never was married, nor gave contract to any woman whatsoever but to my wife Queen Catherine."

At the close of the monarchy, the plebeian possessed the private rights of citizenship in entirety, except for his inability to contract a legal marriage with a patrician, and one of the public rights, that of giving his vote in the assembly.'

The legal rate of interest is 5%, but this may be increased to 7% by written contract.

A treaty is a contract between two or more states.

For example, it is not reasonable for me to perform my share of a contract, unless I have reason for believing that the other party will perform his; and this I cannot have, except in a society in which he will be punished for non-performance.

You are supposed to include all the new rules in your construction contract.

The nerve impulses cause the muscles to contract, thus narrowing the airway.

For example, a blanket refusal to undertake voluntary overtime will not be a breach of contract.

They gave me the contract right then and there.

In 1853 they sold their common property, the London Steelyard; until 1866 they enlisted by special contract their military contingents for the German Confederation, and down to 1879 they had their own court of appeal at Lubeck.

The zamindar seemed a solvent person, capable of keeping a contract; and his official position as tax-collector was confused with the proprietary rights of an English landlord.

In 1899 the Uruguayan government entered into a contract for the dredging of the bay, the construction of two long breakwaters, the dredging of a channel to deep water, and the construction of a great basin and docks in front of the city.

It need not even appear on the face of it to be a contract between the parties, but may take the form of a joint declaration, or of an exchange of notes.

The n formulae of this type represent a normal mode of free vibration; the individual particles revolve as a rule in elliptic orbits which gradually contract according to the law indicated by the exponential factor.

Another view is that the underwriter impliedly undertakes to repay sums which the law may require the assured to pay towards averting losses which would, by the contract, fall upon the underwriter.

In early and popular apocryphal histories the apostles are represented as insisting that their converts should either not contract wedlock or should dissolve the tie if already formed.

A contract by which he bound himself in 1860 to give up all his work for three years had placed him in possession of 1000 francs a month.

Under this act the maximum term of the labour contract is fixed at four years, and a minimum monthly wage is laid down, the payment of which, however, is contingent on the completion of a daily task by the labourer.

In addition to the labourers engaged under this act, a large number are employed under contract enforceable by Act XIII.

Neither does this act regulate in any way the terms of the contract, nor contain any special provisions for the protection of the labourer.

Solon left the rate of interest to be determined by free contract, and sometimes the rate was exceedingly high, but none of the evils so generally prevalent in antiquity were experienced.

A great dislike is shown generally to a written contract binding the parties to a fixed date; and, as a rule, on breaking it the Persian always appeals for and expects delay and indefinite days of grace.

This tendency of the surface to contract itself is called the surface-tension of liquids.

This film, however, tends to contract on itself, and the loose strip of metal BB will, if it is let go, be drawn up towards AA, provided it is sufficiently light and smooth.

The bubble will contract, forcing the air out, and the current of air blown through the tube may be made to deflect the flame of a candle.

We may conceive this pressure to arise from the tendency which the bubble has to contract, or in other words from the surface-tension of the bubble.

In 1700 these rights were transferred to Glasgow by contract, but were afterwards vested in a special trust created by successive acts of parliament.

The care of all defectives was let by contract to other states until 1906, when a state school for the deaf and blind was opened in Boise.

Bishops must be unmarried, and Priests And Deacons Must Not Contract A Second Marriage.