Retract vs. Contract — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Retract and Contract
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Retract
To take back; disavow
Refused to retract the statement.
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.
Retract
To draw back or in
A plane retracting its landing gear.
Contract
An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
Retract
To utter (a sound) with the tongue drawn back.
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Contract
The writing or document containing such an agreement.
Retract
To draw back (the tongue).
Contract
The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
Retract
To take something back or disavow it.
Contract
Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.
Retract
To draw back
A leash that retracts into a plastic case.
Contract
The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.
Retract
(transitive)
Contract
The number of tricks thus bid.
Retract
To pull (something) back or back inside.
Pull back
An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
Contract
Contract bridge.
Retract
(rare) To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
Contract
A paid assignment to murder someone
Put out a contract on the mobster's life.
Retract
(phonetics) To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
Contract
To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement
Contract a marriage.
Retract
(obsolete) To hold back (something); to restrain.
Contract
To acquire or incur
Contract obligations.
Contract a serious illness.
Retract
(intransitive) To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
Muscles retract after amputation.
Contract
To reduce in size by drawing together; shrink.
Retract
(transitive)
Contract
To pull together; wrinkle.
Retract
To cancel or take back (something, such as an edict or a favour or grant previously bestowed); to rescind, to revoke.
Contract
(Grammar) To shorten (a word or words) by omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds, as do not to don't.
Retract
To break or fail to keep (a promise, etc.); to renege.
Contract
To enter into or make an agreement
Contract for garbage collection.
Retract
To take back or withdraw (something that has been said or written); to disavow, to repudiate.
I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.
Contract
To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together
The pupils of the patient's eyes contracted.
Retract
(games) Originally in chess and now in other games as well: to take back or undo (a move); specifically (card games) to take back or withdraw (a card which has been played).
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
Retract
(intransitive)
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.
Retract
To decline or fail to do something promised; to break one's word.
Contract
(legal) The document containing such an agreement.
Retract
Of something said or written (such as published academic work): to take back or withdraw.
Contract
(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
Retract
To change one's mind after declaring an intention to make a certain move.
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.
Retract
An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
Contract
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
Retract
A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
Contract
(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Retract
Synonym of retreat
Contract
(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
Retract
To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.
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
Retract
To withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.
I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it.
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”.
Retract
To take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.
Contract
(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en
Retract
To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.
Contract
(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
Retract
To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.
She will, and she will not; she grants, denies,Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.
Contract
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To contract for carrying the mail
Retract
The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Contract
(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
To contract a debt
Retract
Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure;
He retracted his earlier statements about his religion
She abjured her beliefs
Contract
(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
Retract
Pull away from a source of disgust or fear
Contract
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Retract
Use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Contract
To betroth; to affiance.
Retract
Pull inward or towards a center;
The pilot drew in the landing gear
The cat retracted his claws
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.
Contract
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
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.
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.
Contract
To betroth; to affiance.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
Contract
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
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.
Contract
To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contract
Contracted; as, a contract verb.
Contract
Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
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.
Contract
A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Contract
The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
This is the the night of the contract.
Contract
A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
Contract
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Contract
A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
Contract
Enter into a contractual arrangement
Contract
Engage by written agreement;
They signed two new pitchers for the next season
Contract
Squeeze or press together;
She compressed her lips
The spasm contracted the muscle
Contract
Become smaller or draw together;
The fabric shrank
The balloon shrank
Contract
Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;
He got AIDS
She came down with pneumonia
She took a chill
Contract
Make smaller;
The heat contracted the woollen garment
Contract
Compress or concentrate;
Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan
Contract
Make or become more narrow or restricted;
The selection was narrowed
The road narrowed
Contract
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
The manuscript must be shortened
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