0 a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the agreement itself:
a contract of employment
They could take legal action against you if you break (the terms of) the contract.
Don't sign/enter into any contract before examining its conditions carefully.
[ + to infinitive ] They're the firm of architects who won the contract to design the Museum of Fine Art extension.
1 to make or become shorter or narrower or generally smaller in size:
2 to catch or become ill with a disease:
He contracted malaria while he was travelling.
3 to make a legal agreement with someone to do work or to have work done for you:
[ + to infinitive ] Our company was contracted to build shelters for the homeless.
4 a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the agreement itself:
6 to catch or become ill with a disease:
She contracted pneumonia and was hospitalized.
7 to arrange through a formal agreement to have a person or company produce something or supply workers or material, esp. for building :
8 a formal agreement between two people or companies, or a legal document that explains the details of this agreement:
contract for sth The contract for the new drilling platform went to a Dutch company.
contract to do sth He recently landed a contract to write a book about his expedition.
contract with sb State agencies spent about $319 million on contracts with private vendors last year.
contract between sb and sb It is a standard contract between a home seller and their agent.
An independent contractor is legally responsible for job completion and, on quitting, becomes liable for breach of contract.
draw up/write up a contract
a long-term/short-term contract
9 a formal agreement relating to buying or selling a stock, currency, commodity, etc. for a particular price at a particular time:
10 to have made a formal agreement with another person or company, and be legally responsible for doing what you have agreed to do:
11 if an organization, government, etc. puts something out to contract, they allow different companies to compete to provide a service or do a job for them:
12 if a market or economy contracts, less money is being earned, spent, or invested in it:
13 to make a legal agreement with another person or company, for example, to do work for them or to use their services:
14 contract workers are paid by companies or other organizations to work on a particular job, but are not employees of those companies, organizations, etc.:
The contract between the two companies will expire at the end of the year.
They will only agree to sign the contract if certain conditions are met.
I'm on a temporary contract and have little financial security .
Under the terms of their contract, employees must give three months' notice if they leave.
Her firm have just won a cleaning contract worth £3 million.
In practice most contracts are for between 6 to 9 months.
Enterprise reform since the late 1980s has broken this pattern and fixed-term labour contracts have been introduced to cover all seafarers.
Export tax revenues fell with falling world prices, and as import volume contracted so did revenues from import taxes.
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