Bedeutung von contract auf Englisch

• 0 to make or become smaller, less, shorter, tighter etc -- zusammenziehen

  • Metals expand when heated and contract when cooled

  • ‘I am’ is often contracted to ‘I’m’

  • Muscles contract.

• 1 American ˈkontrakt to promise legally in writing -- sich vertraglich verpflichten

  • They contracted to supply us with cable.

• 2 to become infected with (a disease) -- zuziehen

  • He contracted malaria.

• 3 to promise (in marriage). -- schließen

• 4 a legal written agreement -- der Vertrag, der Auftrag

  • He has a four-year contract (of employment) with us

  • The firm won a contract for three new aircraft.