contract
kon trakt
- n a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- n (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- n a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- v enter into a contractual arrangement
- v engage by written agreement
- v squeeze or press together
the spasm contracted the muscle - v be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- v become smaller or draw together
- v make smaller
The heat contracted the woollen garment - v compress or concentrate
- v make or become more narrow or restricted
- v reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- But when the contract-approval document arrived the next day for Greenhouse's signature, the term was five years.
- In the end, however, the department renewed the contract until July 2010.
- You're trading a contract obligating you to buy or sell it at a specified delivery date in the future.