contract

Definition

  • noun: a legal agreement between people, companies, etc.
  • noun: a binding agreement between two or more persons or parties
  • verb: to make (something) smaller or shorter
  • verb: to bring on oneself especially inadvertently
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: narrow, shorten, abridge

Examples

  • The company won a multi-million-dollar 'contract' to build a new courthouse. = The company was awarded a multi-million-dollar 'contract' to build a new courthouse.

  • The company 'contracted out' its manufacturing jobs. [=the company paid another company to do its manufacturing jobs instead of doing them itself]

  • If he breaks the 'contract' [=if he does not abide by the agreement], he will get sued.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and I looked in the phone book and there's a "Your Self" storage facility right outside of downtown Baltimore, sir. Unit was leased for ten years, pre-paid in full. The contract is in the name of a Miss Hester Mofet. So nobody's been in here since ? Not to my knowledge. Privacy is a great concern (..)
    1991 The Silence of the Lambs