article

1. 1.

   bind by a contract; especially for a training period

   Broaderoblige

Other forms of article

plural

articles·

past tense

articled·

present participle

articling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about article

What does article mean?

article means "nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in article?

article has 3 syllables: ar-ti-cle. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɑɹtəkəl/.

What is another word for article?

Close synonyms include clause. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is article a common word?

article is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.