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contract

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "make narrow, draw together;" early 15c. "make an agreement;" from Middle French contracter , from Latin contractus , past participle of contrahere "to draw together, combine, make an agreement" (see contract (n.)). Related: Contracted ; contracting ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A contract is a promise, or agreement made of a set of promises, that is recognized by the law. Contract may also refer to:

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 1 (context obsolete English) Contracted; affianced; betrothed. 2 (context obsolete English) Not abstract; concrete. n. An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contract \Con*tract"\ (k[o^]n*tr[a^]kt"), v. i. To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet. Years contracting to a moment. --Wordsworth. ...

Usage examples of contract.

Boeing or Airbus may or may not install these items for the airline, depending on the contract.

She actually remembered that contract, a cargo of rosilk, to be sold on Akra Leuke.

Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.

CHAPTER XIX Occupation at Athens--Mount Pentilicus--We descend into the Caverns-- Return to Athens--A Greek Contract of Marriage--Various Athenian and Albanian Superstitions--Effect of their Impression on the Genius of the Poet During his residence at Athens, Lord Byron made almost daily excursions on horseback, chiefly for exercise and to see the localities of celebrated spots.

Beatles, albums see albums by the Beatles Apple Group contract, 569, 580 avant-garde, 231, 234, 329, 372 Beatlemania, xii, 73, 95, 171, 186 biographies, xii break-up, 576-88 at the Cavern, 80-83 as celebrities, 128 changes in show business, 139 disbanded, 553 dislike of image, 303-4 dispute about Allen Klein, 547-9 and drugs, 184-92, 198-9, 347, 378, first record, 37 formed from the Quarry Men, 52 and Greek Island, 377-80 in Hamburg, clothes, 71, 76, 101 at the Indra, 57-8 at the Kaiserkeller, 59-63 deported, 73 houses, 167-70 and the Maharishi, 396-404 Mayfair flat, 102 modern music, 330-1 origin of name, 52 recordings rejected by Decca, 89 sleeve design for, Abbey Road, Sgt.

In Aldrovanda it appears to be the basal parts alone which contract and carry with them the broad, thin margins of the lobes.

They were appeals or writs of error to federal courts where recovery was sought upon municipal or county bonds or some other form of contracts, the validity of which had been sustained by decisions of the Supreme Court of a State prior to their execution, and had been denied by the same court after their issue or making.

Perhaps it had been with this hope already at the back of her mind that she had invited her school-friend, Arabella Haverhill, who had contracted such a brilliant match, to stand as godmother to her infant daughter.

He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.

I am convinced that awful magistrate my lord-mayor contracts a good deal of that reverence which attends him through the year, by the several pageants which precede his pomp.

The reader will understand, therefore, that when the genius and his mate proposed to start on Macpherson, they were laying out a capacious contract for the cast-iron canvasser, and were taking a step which could only have been inspired by a morbid craving for excitement, aided by the influence of backblock whisky.

Ostensibly, they were a Bahraini engineer and an Omani accountant heading for Labuan on contract to the natural gas industry, and that was what Suleiman was filling in.

Not that anyone would care what damage a Batcher picked up for bounty took, so long as she was alivestipulating that the contract called for it.

Lockheed-engineered National Security State approved massive latex uber-condom, a super-project of such immensity as to call for the unlikely marriage of the conceptual vision of Christo and the sleazy contracting gusto of Bechtel, Inc?

A few employees worked directly for the federal government, but most people were on the payroll of Bechtel, who had the facilities management contract.