Crossword-Solution: CONTRACT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contract | n. | To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. |
| Contract | n. | To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. |
| Contract | n. | To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. |
| Contract | n. | To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for. |
| Contract | n. | To betroth; to affiance. |
| Contract | n. | To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. |
| Contract | 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. |
| Contract | v. i. | To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail. |
| Contract | a. | Contracted; as, a contract verb. |
| Contract | a. | Contracted; affianced; betrothed. |
| 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. |
| Contract | n. | A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation. |
| Contract | n. | The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. |
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Sentences with CONTRACT (5)
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it—break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself.
The Lion and the Dolphin A LION roaming by the seashore saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of the waves, and suggested that they contract an alliance, saying that of all the animals they ought to be the best friends, since the one was the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler of all the inhabitants of the ocean.
Greenland has signed a contract for its largest construction project, a power plant to supply the capital.
Weak international prices since 1986 have caused the economy to contract and per capita GDP to decline.
Who could reject The proffered amity of such a friend? First, he can claim the hospitality To which by mutual contract we stand pledged: Next, coming here, a suppliant to the gods, He pays full tribute to the State and me; His favors therefore never will I spurn, But grant him the full rights of citizen; And, if it suits the stranger here to bide, I place him in your charge, or if he please Rather to come with me—choose, Oedipus, Which of the two thou wilt.
Quotes with CONTRACT (3)
If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...
As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me, The old world of houses, rooms, trees and streets shimmers, wavers and tears away, revealing another universe as startling as fire. We are shut off from the fullness of things. Words hide the world. They blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception. But the …
It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we…
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1955–2024).