contract

1. 1.

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

   Broaderwritten agreement

   Narroweradhesion contractaleatory contractbilateral contractcharterconditional contractcost-plus contractgambling contractleasemarriage contractoutput contract

   Partsarbitration clausereserve clausefine printboilerplate
2. 2.

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

   Synonymsdeclaration

   Broaderbid

   Part ofbridge

   contract

3. 3.

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

   Synonymscontract bridge

   Broaderbridge

   Narrowerno-trump

Other forms of contract

plural

contracts·

past tense

contracted·

present participle

contracting·

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 contract

What does contract mean?

contract means "enter into a contractual arrangement". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in contract?

contract has 2 syllables: con-tract. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnˌtɹækt/.

What is another word for contract?

Close synonyms include undertake, sign, sign on, sign up, compress. 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.

What is the opposite of contract?

The recorded antonyms are expand, expand.

Is contract a common word?

contract is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with contract?

8 words rhyme with contract. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.