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Contract

A contract is a legally binding document between at least two parties that defines and governs the rights and duties of the parties to an agreement. A contract is legally enforceable because it meets the requirements and approval of the law.
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Dilate

Make or become wider, larger, or more open
Her eyes dilated with horror
The woman dilated her nostrils
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Contract

An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
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Dilate

Speak or write at length on (a subject)
The faithful could hear the minister dilate on the role religion could play
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Contract

The writing or document containing such an agreement.
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Dilate

To make wider or larger; cause to expand.
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Contract

The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
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Dilate

To become wider or larger; expand.
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Contract

Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.
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Dilate

To speak or write at great length on a subject; expatiate.
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Contract

The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.
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Dilate

(transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
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Contract

The number of tricks thus bid.
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Dilate

(intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
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Contract

Contract bridge.
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Dilate

(ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
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Contract

A paid assignment to murder someone
Put out a contract on the mobster's life.
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Dilate

To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
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Contract

To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement
Contract a marriage.
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Dilate

To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; - opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
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Contract

To acquire or incur
Contract obligations.
Contract a serious illness.
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Dilate

To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Do me the favor to dilate at fullWhat hath befallen of them and thee till now.
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Contract

To reduce in size by drawing together; shrink.
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Dilate

To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
His heart dilates and glories in his strength.
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Contract

To pull together; wrinkle.
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Dilate

To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; - with on or upon.
But still on their ancient joys dilate.
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Contract

(Grammar) To shorten (a word or words) by omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds, as do not to don't.
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Dilate

Extensive; expanded.
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Contract

To enter into or make an agreement
Contract for garbage collection.
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Dilate

Become wider;
His pupils were dilated
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Contract

To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together
The pupils of the patient's eyes contracted.
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Dilate

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing;
She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
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Contract

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
Marriage is a contract.
Sign a contract
Write up a contract
Read a contract
Countersign a contract
Legally-binding contract
Unwritten contract
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Contract

(legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
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Contract

(legal) The document containing such an agreement.
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Contract

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
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Contract

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
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Contract

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
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Contract

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
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Contract

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
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Contract

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
To contract one’s sphere of action
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Contract

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
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Contract

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en
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Contract

(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
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Contract

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To contract for carrying the mail
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Contract

(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
To contract a debt
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Contract

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
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Contract

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
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Contract

To betroth; to affiance.
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Contract

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
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Contract

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
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Contract

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Each from each contract new strength and light.
Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
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Contract

To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.
Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law.
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Contract

To betroth; to affiance.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
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Contract

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
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Contract

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.
Years contracting to a moment.
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Contract

To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
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Contract

Contracted; as, a contract verb.
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Contract

Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
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Contract

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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Contract

A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
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Contract

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
This is the the night of the contract.
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Contract

A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
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Contract

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
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Contract

A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
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Contract

Enter into a contractual arrangement
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Contract

Engage by written agreement;
They signed two new pitchers for the next season
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Contract

Squeeze or press together;
She compressed her lips
The spasm contracted the muscle
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Contract

Become smaller or draw together;
The fabric shrank
The balloon shrank
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Contract

Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;
He got AIDS
She came down with pneumonia
She took a chill
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Contract

Make smaller;
The heat contracted the woollen garment
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Contract

Compress or concentrate;
Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan
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Contract

Make or become more narrow or restricted;
The selection was narrowed
The road narrowed
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Contract

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
The manuscript must be shortened
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