I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an employment contract (also a contract of employment) (= an official document stating the details about someone’s employment)
▪ There is a clause in your employment contract covering holiday entitlement.
an exclusive deal/contract (=one that says that no other person or company can do the same job)
▪ Our firm has an exclusive contract to handle the company’s legal affairs.
breach of contract
▪ They sued the company for breach of contract.
break a contract
▪ He took the company to court for breaking the contract.
contract an illnessformal (= get an illness by catching it from another person)
▪ He contracted the illness while he was working abroad.
contract bridge
draw up a contract/agreement
▪ Some people draw up a contract when they get married.
lucrative business/market/contract etc
▪ He inherited a lucrative business from his father.
negotiate an agreement/contract etc
▪ Union leaders have negotiated an agreement for a shorter working week.
pitch for business/contracts/custom etc
▪ Booksellers are keen to pitch for school business.
renew sb’s contract/licence/membership etc
▪ I need to renew my passport this year.
rental contract/scheme/service etc
▪ Could you sign the rental agreement?
secure a deal/contract
▪ The company secured a $20 million contract.
social contract
your muscles contract (=tighten so that you can move a part of your body)
▪ These nerves tell the muscles when to contract.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binding
▪ From that moment, there is a binding exchange of contracts.
▪ It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract, albeit with the price still outstanding.
▪ However, in many cases the parties may create a binding contract by agreement on the three matters already identified.
▪ Explain whether this is a legally binding contract and whether or not Wilson Decorators must supply materials and receive £800. 4.
▪ The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.
▪ In that way, you're tying the supplier to a legally binding contract.
▪ In general there was the invocation of one or more deities to bear witness that a binding contract was being undertaken.
lucrative
▪ It wants the money spent on public infrastructure, providing lucrative contracts for business.
▪ Fife Symington, pleaded innocent Wednesday to federal charges that they rigged a bid for a lucrative state contract.
▪ When the Tories crested to power in 1710, Barber landed some lucrative contracts.
▪ At the last minute, Aki tells her, the university settled and the two coaches signed lucrative new contracts.
▪ The lobbies of Baghdad's five-star hotels are packed with businessmen fighting over lucrative contracts.
▪ They had received some excellent, lucrative contracts.
▪ Turturro plays the eponymous Fink, an avantgarde New York playwright who accepts a lucrative Hollywood contract.
▪ Swan was the favourite to secure the lucrative contract until the yard was placed in receivership in May.
new
▪ In April, the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work.
▪ The new contract, which Laws negotiated with the board, also provides additional compensation that is separate from the base salary.
▪ Brian Horton says the new contracts don't mean that he can't be sacked.
▪ Tomorrow, talks are scheduled to begin on a new musicians contract to replace the collective bargaining agreement that expired Friday.
▪ This starts with the date that employment under the new contract begins.
▪ Preliminary talks on a new contract for Elvis Grbac apparently went well.
▪ Paul Loughlin has agreed a new two year contract.
social
▪ So the social contract is selfishly motivated; it comes about through our rational ability to perceive a personal advantage from it.
▪ You scientists, you upholders of the social contract, gloat like other mortals when somebody makes a mistake?
▪ But neither does it depend on some higher authority or a social contract.
▪ An independent economic woman was definitely and explicitly not part of the concept of our social contract as its formulators envisioned it.
▪ We would will this as part of the social contract because our own selfishness would enable us to see its necessity.
▪ The introduction of a social contract was what made raw capitalism work, he argued.
▪ It is as an alternative to these theories that Rawls champions the social contract.
▪ Rahma in exchange for freedom is the social contract that the new religion proposed to the citizens of Mecca.
■ NOUN
award
▪ Both the 1997 Glenigan and government figures for contract awards and orders show a significant rise in work won.
employment
▪ A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness.
▪ She has maintained that the charges were being brought in retribution for leaving her employment contract early.
▪ If the employer requires protection he should have the foresight to include an express covenant in the employment contract.
▪ When an employee is working without a formal employment contract, the terms of an employee handbook may be contractually binding.
▪ Employees who opt for the scheme will be expected to revert to their former employment contract once their children reach 14.
▪ Price signed an employment contract, promising to continue managing the Mutual Series funds for at least five years.
▪ Intellectual property: Restrictive intellectual property clauses in employment contracts or restrictive covenants could force the brightest free workers to walk.
▪ He had a written employment contract, but it did not refer to his place of work.
marriage
▪ Society lays down the basic rules of the marriage contract.
▪ On 15 May 1679 the marriage contract was signed at Lisbon.
▪ In the event, as historians have observed, the spark was trivial - a man's signature on his marriage contract.
▪ These are intimately bound up together, not least because of the way in which the marriage contract is defined.
▪ Studies show that a typical marriage contract accords a couple 170 rights and responsibilities.
▪ This provision could be written into the marriage contract.
▪ The marriage contract is currently the most ambiguous of contracts.
research
▪ Last year, the mechanism for fixing up research contracts was streamlined.
term
▪ Others include relating pay to performance ... and the introduction of fixed term contracts.
▪ He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts, and their pay would be performance related.
▪ I've had a very short term contract for each show.
▪ Non-whites are, overall, more likely than whites to be in fixed term contract posts.
▪ Will you be looking for more of these longer term contracts?
▪ Repeated talks with manager John Lyall still leave a new long term contract unsigned.
■ VERB
agree
▪ Mr Quinn said he and Mr Neal had agreed a contract to refer work between the firms.
▪ Two players agreed to new contracts Wednesday.
▪ Thus, the couple had agreed upon a simple contract.
▪ Right-hander Darren Dreifort agreed to a one-year contract.
▪ Therefore providers ought to be able to agree to contracts for these services at a lower price.
▪ What happens if the union and the school board can not agree on a contract?
▪ Neale, 38, has agreed a three-year contract and takes up his duties on March 1.
▪ Following his second season, Karros agreed to a contract worth $ 6. 15 million over three seasons.
break
▪ Farmers say supermarkets put them under pressure to sell at rock bottom prices-and regularly break contracts.
▪ But these solicitors often break the law, and that's grounds for you to break the contract.
▪ And I am also not some one to break contracts.
▪ Now the masses are beginning to feel that the state has broken the social contract.
▪ Many Whigs took the line that James had been deposed because he had broken his original contract with the people.
▪ Last week, the district board postponed a decision on whether to break the contract.
▪ Companies are not regarded as individuals under the Act and are therefore unable to break contracts once signed.
▪ How can a teacher break a contract?
conclude
▪ A court or tribunal will be reluctant to conclude that your contract has been frustrated.
▪ However, by far the majority of private company acquisitions are concluded by private contract.
enter
▪ It will be entering into contracts to both buy and sell specific currencies on or between specific dates.
▪ After it enters the contract, the value changes as rates fluctuate.
▪ Where the receiver enters into a new contract this will be binding on the company.
▪ Traders must consider domestic and foreign exchange control regulations when entering into contracts and seeking settlement.
▪ Teachers who enter with new contracts of employment after the Act expires will not, however, be covered.
▪ The second agency had warned him he was entering into a contract by giving his credit card number.
exchange
▪ She had to go through with it now, as she had exchanged contracts on the house.
▪ One person close to Disney said the two parties have exchanged contracts and expect to close the transaction this month.
▪ Don't exchange contracts until you and your client are satisfied on every point and in particular about adoption of roads and drains.
▪ Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
▪ Every buyer, lessee and mortgagee of property in or in the vicinity of a coalmining area should search before exchanging contracts.
▪ Once you have exchanged contracts, the countdown to completion and the day of your move begins.
▪ In effect this stage is equivalent to exchange of contracts in a sale by private treaty, with completion four weeks later.
▪ If Guy had only exchanged contracts last week, he'd organised himself with impressive speed.
negotiate
▪ There is a typical example among writers, seeking to protect copyright and to negotiate general contract conditions.
▪ He fancied himself as something of an impresario, and had some experience negotiating contracts with Hollywood studios.
▪ This doctrine was acceptable where two powerful companies were negotiating a contract in a free market, but contractually weaker persons suffered.
▪ School boards get so busy negotiating contracts and avoiding layoffs that they forget about the quality of their schools.
▪ This is where hard bargaining at the time that you negotiated your service contract could pay off handsomely.
▪ But then, the Mob would never negotiate a great contract.
▪ Here, International Software negotiates contracts with software vendors and ensures that customers get a good price.
▪ Like Jody, Aki is also in the midst of negotiating a new contract.
offer
▪ Middlesbrough will offer new contracts in the summer to full back Jimmy Phillips and midfield player Mark Proctor.
▪ She sang at clubs and was offered a recording contract by a small independent label.
▪ We never offer recording contracts as prizes, although we are constantly asked to do so.
▪ Maybe if Carter was elected he would offer a social contract.
▪ Apparently he'd been offered a record contract which the Fish had turned down, saying they weren't good enough yet.
▪ Miami is offering a big contract extension to keep him from leaving campus.
▪ Employers may offer such contracts with a view to making them permanent once they are satisfied that you have completed the course successfully.
▪ It was the Jazz again, and they offered a 10-day contract.
renew
▪ He has played in Sicily for the past few years and has decided to renew his contract.
▪ San Francisco first hired the firm in 1993, and recently renewed its three-year contract.
▪ As a result, firms employing them need to recruit frequently to replace those who choose not to renew their contracts.
▪ Gordon did not renew his contract, either.
▪ But I believe it is better to call a halt now at a point when the option to renew contracts has arisen.
▪ I've decided not to renew my contract.
▪ Half our clients have already told us they won't renew their contracts.
secure
▪ During the year we renegotiated the Rustenburg agreement securing this important contract into the next century.
▪ Miller and his colleagues worked really hard to secure the Worldwide Plaza contract: It was very important to Mosher.
▪ Swan was the favourite to secure the lucrative contract until the yard was placed in receivership in May.
▪ What else would you expect from Lisa Leslie, who has secured a modeling contract as a side gig?
▪ Hence they were predisposed to secure contracts under the state scheme which preserved their freedom.
▪ These items should include the salary group classed as permanent, as temporary, or as services secured on a contract basis.
▪ Why should they study when they imagine a future secured by a seven-figure contract?
sign
▪ The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts.
▪ The lead police detective signed a contract with a television movie production company.
▪ Braxton signed a recording contract with Arista Records in 1974 and moved to Woodstock.
▪ Clients sign contracts to become participants and agree to adhere to a rigorous schedule.
▪ He didn't know that Reichmann had already rented out two of the four towers before he had signed the contract.
▪ Perkins liked Seals enough to sign him to a contract.
▪ Each member of the troupe had to sign the formidable contract.
▪ He signed the contract to produce his atlas in 1930.
terminate
▪ Despite calls of if Rentokil won, Rank would terminate the contract, Rentokil went on to a 7-O victory.
▪ Thomas could terminate the contract and become a free agent.
▪ The employment protection legislation operates to restrict the grounds on which an employer can terminate the contract of employment with impunity.
▪ The board terminated his contract a few months later.
▪ Bosses are said to have decided to terminate his contract on December 31.
▪ As the administrative receiver is the agent of the company, his appointment does not terminate the company's contracts.
▪ Alternatively, the customer or supplier may look on the purported transfer as an opportunity to terminate or renegotiate the contract.
▪ Such a threat is credible only if carrying it out would impose little loss on the person terminating the contract.
win
▪ Last year, it won large outsourcing contracts worth more than Pounds 700m-mostly in the public sector.
▪ Together, they won a landmark union contract for better pay and working conditions.
▪ And that's no different from the uncertainty over winning the multi-million contract with Tashenu's.
▪ The region has won a £3 million contract awarded by Birmingham City Council to repair and redecorate 7078 council homes.
▪ Project sources say any one of the half dozen is capable of winning the contract.
▪ Both have won a contract with the International Model Agency of London.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a binding contract/promise/agreement etc
▪ An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement.
▪ But Equitable was set on the Halifax deal and has signed a binding contract for the first half of its proposals.
▪ However, in many cases the parties may create a binding contract by agreement on the three matters already identified.
▪ If they can come to a binding agreement, the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years.
▪ In general there was the invocation of one or more deities to bear witness that a binding contract was being undertaken.
▪ It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract, albeit with the price still outstanding.
▪ The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.
close a deal/sale/contract etc
▪ He talks and talks, compromises and compromises, until he closes a deal.
▪ I enjoy closing a deal 5a.
▪ I told her not to come back until she closed a deal.
▪ In the heart of the city, Bob Scott is further still from closing a deal.
▪ Many will offer low-interest loans, tax breaks or whatever else it takes to close a deal.
▪ Why, then, are some salespeople reluctant to close a sale?
conclude an agreement/treaty/contract etc
▪ As an alternative to this bloc policy Khrushchev offered to conclude treaties of non-aggression and friendship with the states concerned.
▪ States which did not consider a customs union to be necessary could conclude agreements with the customs union on a free-trade zone.
enter into an agreement/contract etc
▪ Brunell and the team will enter into contract negotiations next week.
▪ David Holton and Hughes already have entered into an agreement with the local state attorney to settle criminal charges.
▪ How different it might have been if Edelman had proposed that politicians enter into a Contract With Children.
▪ It will be entering into contracts to both buy and sell specific currencies on or between specific dates.
▪ Similarly, business has to enter into agreements.
▪ Traders must consider domestic and foreign exchange control regulations when entering into contracts and seeking settlement.
▪ We have entered into agreements in good faith.
exchange contracts
▪ A good resolution before you exchange contracts would be to stand back and have a really long look at the wood!
▪ Accordingly, no account is taken of unrealised profits or losses arising on such forward exchange contracts.
▪ Don't exchange contracts until you and your client are satisfied on every point and in particular about adoption of roads and drains.
▪ Every buyer, lessee and mortgagee of property in or in the vicinity of a coalmining area should search before exchanging contracts.
▪ Once the hammer has fallen, the successful bidder for a house must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
▪ Once you have exchanged contracts, the countdown to completion and the day of your move begins.
▪ One person close to Disney said the two parties have exchanged contracts and expect to close the transaction this month.
▪ She had to go through with it now, as she had exchanged contracts on the house.
honour a promise/contract/agreement etc
▪ Moreover, Gosteleradio claimed that Interfax had never honoured an agreement to remit 50 percent of its earnings to Radio Moscow.
sign an agreement/contract/treaty etc
▪ Clients sign contracts to become participants and agree to adhere to a rigorous schedule.
▪ It took more than a month to find and sign a contract with another company to complete the remaining work.
▪ Kiptanui rushed off, saying he was going to make Kimeli sign a contract.
▪ Paup had wanted to sign a contract extension with Green Bay during the 1994 season, but the Packers never approached him.
▪ Pre-season David Campese signed a contract with commercial broadcaster Channel Ten.
▪ The lead police detective signed a contract with a television movie production company.
▪ You must stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a treaty selling your home.
tear up an agreement/a contract etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Baltimore officials have confirmed that Olson will sign a two-year contract with the club.
▪ My contract guarantees me a 15% pay raise every year.
▪ My contract says I have to work 35 hours per week.
▪ The company was prosecuted for breaking the contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new service could set up by gaining enough contracts with major customers of the old service to take over.
▪ Future contracts will cost more or less, depending on trends in tuition costs, Cantor said.
▪ His contract of employment contained a restraint of trade clause.
▪ Many EconoPage customers had several years left on their contracts.
▪ One of the largest new contracts is a £9 million deal with the City of Westminster to provide a school meals service.
▪ These individuals, known as locals, are vital for the liquidity of the markets in the contracts traded in the pits.
▪ Two San Diego firms are major subcontractors vying for the ship contract.
▪ Union contracts often specifically protect workers who are physically able to work.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
▪ In addition, much of the grounds maintenance is now contracted out, giving custodians more time to spend with visitors.
▪ When these findings attracted media attention, Mayor Lindsay appointed a commission to look into the option of contracting out garbage collection.
▪ Services can be contracted out or turned over to the private sector.
▪ A public employee union in Michigan sued to block the state from contracting out job training for welfare recipients.
▪ Sub-contracting or contracting out was but one of a number of cost-cutting strategies.
▪ Some of the work, he said, is contracted out.
■ NOUN
business
▪ An executive order to revoke federal contracts of businesses that hire illegal workers.
disease
▪ Twenty-nine thousand people contracted the disease 226 in 1955, including almost four thousand in the Massachusetts epidemic that summer and fall.
▪ Will employers be tempted to screen potential employees to protect themselves from lawsuits afterwards from workers who contract such diseases?
▪ He said children were no more likely to contract the disease than are adults.
▪ Why the animals have contracted the disease remains unclear.
▪ Some youngsters who contracted the disease had fallen from their bikes, but this was nothing more than a tragic coincidence.
▪ Never forget horses can not contract foot-and-mouth disease.
economy
▪ Prices are spiralling, the economy is contracting and jobs are disappearing even faster than the emigrants are leaving.
▪ But the country's economy is contracting, and Chernobyl is no longer seen as vital to its energy needs.
▪ But this year, the economy may contract.
▪ Down the line the rest of the oil and loan dependent economy was contracting.
firm
▪ During and after the war, Mr Packard co-founded an association to get more defense contracts for West Coast firms.
▪ When he formed his own contracting firm, his partners were some of the best-known politicians and railway men in the country.
▪ The district contracts with 57 outside firms and has only 12 staff attorneys.
virus
▪ Then his horses contracted a virus.
▪ When he tried to return in 1992, several players said they were concerned about contracting the virus by playing against him.
▪ He does not know when he contracted the virus.
■ VERB
expand
▪ The sealant would expand or contract by that amount as the building shifted.
▪ Firstly, this makes it difficult to decide where best to expand or contract the firm's resources.
▪ His mouth never seemed to alter in shape; rather it expanded and contracted proportionally when he spoke.
▪ But what would happen if and when the universe stopped expanding and began to contract?
▪ Metal pendulum rods expanded with heat, contracted when cooled and beat out seconds at different tempos, depending on the temperature.
▪ However, as we said earlier, this stock may expand or contract depending upon the net flow of newly issued bills.
sign
▪ Would Johnson be wearing purple Nikes and signing seven-figure contracts if it were not for Lewis?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a binding contract/promise/agreement etc
▪ An offer is something which is clearly intended if accepted to form a binding agreement.
▪ But Equitable was set on the Halifax deal and has signed a binding contract for the first half of its proposals.
▪ However, in many cases the parties may create a binding contract by agreement on the three matters already identified.
▪ If they can come to a binding agreement, the prisoners will both profess their innocence and be sentenced to two years.
▪ In general there was the invocation of one or more deities to bear witness that a binding contract was being undertaken.
▪ It was held there that the parties had made a binding contract, albeit with the price still outstanding.
▪ The successful bidder is under a binding contract to purchase the relevant property.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dr Chalmers is trying to find out how many people may have contracted the disease in her area.
▪ He contracted the disease through an insect bite.
▪ In the 1980s, the economy contracted and many small businesses failed.
▪ Metal contracts as it becomes cool.
▪ Orwell contracted tuberculosis during the war and eventually died from the disease.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Firstly, this makes it difficult to decide where best to expand or contract the firm's resources.
▪ The city of Chicago has contracted to purchase three city transit buses that will be powered by fuel cells.
▪ The Housing Authority of Louisville quit contracting with one of its resident management corporations because the corporation began to cheat.
▪ The key message is that kids cook quick - which is not to say that they immediately contract the disease.
▪ When she contracted polio, which paralyzed her left leg, she was told she would never walk again.
▪ When we work a muscle we cause it to contract and become bigger.