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Definition of contract

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Contract (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights..

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Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg..

Ammeter :: Ammeter (n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.

Frown :: Frown (v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look..

Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun..

Force :: Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

Precontracted :: Precontracted (imp. & p. p.) of Precontrac.

Shrimp :: Shrimp (v. t.) To contract; to shrink.

Corrugent :: Corrugent (a.) Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator.

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Twitch :: Twitch (n.) A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the side..

Scrivener :: Scrivener (n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

Inertia :: Inertia (n.) Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased..

Coz :: Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.

Put :: Put () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth..

Chevisance :: Chevisance (n.) An unlawful agreement or contract.

Shave :: Shave (v. t.) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular..

Postdate :: Postdate (v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one..