contract of adhesion

1. 1.

   a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power

   Synonymsadhesion contract

   Broadercontract

Questions about contract of adhesion

What does contract of adhesion mean?

contract of adhesion means "a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power".

What is another word for contract of adhesion?

Close synonyms include adhesion contract. 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 contract of adhesion a common word?

contract of adhesion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.