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contract
English
- 🔊 a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- 🔊 a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- 🔊 (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
- 🔊 be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness“He got AIDS”
- 🔊 enter into a contractual arrangement
- 🔊 make smaller“The heat contracted the woollen garment”
- 🔊 become smaller or draw together“The fabric shrank”
- 🔊 make or become more narrow or restricted“The selection was narrowed”
- 🔊 engage by written agreement“They signed two new pitchers for the next season”
- 🔊 compress or concentrate“Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan”
- 🔊 squeeze or press together“she compressed her lips”
- 🔊 reduce in scope while retaining essential elements“The manuscript must be shortened”
Spanish
- 🔊 encoger to contract
- 🔊 contrato contract, agreement
- 🔊 pacto contract, agreement
- 🔊 contratar to contract, to take on
- 🔊 contraer to contract, to get, to catch, to develop (e.g. a disease, illness or infection)