special contract

1. 1.

   a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached

   Synonymssealed instrumentcontract under seal

   Broadercontract

Questions about special contract

What does special contract mean?

special contract means "a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached".

What is another word for special contract?

Close synonyms include sealed instrument, contract under seal. 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 special contract a common word?

special contract 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.