contract (original) (raw)
contract verb (BECOME SMALLER)
contract to In spoken English, "do not" often contracts to "don't".
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment.
- lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease.
- lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join.
- reduceThey've just reduced the price.
- bring downThey are bringing down their prices.
- dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement.
contract verb (BECOME ILL)
contract verb (AGREEMENT)
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of contract from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
contract | American Dictionary
contract noun [C] (AGREEMENT)
contractual
contract verb (SHORTEN)
contract verb (BECOME ILL)
contract verb [T] (AGREE)
(Definition of contract from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of contract
contract
In practice most contracts are for between 6 to 9 months.
Enterprise reform since the late 1980s has broken this pattern and fixed-term labour contracts have been introduced to cover all seafarers.
Export tax revenues fell with falling world prices, and as import volume contracted so did revenues from import taxes.
Breaches of these contracts were regarded as criminal, not civil offences.
In contrast, contracting dynamics can be used to "write" the information.
Such contracts are signed by the maistry, rarely by the planter, and they are seldom, if ever, registered.
Construction contracts were tendered locally and therefore came as a boost to local resource and manufacturing industries.
Decisions about production mix, terminal use and contracts are considered.
The study also considers the earning differentials between men and women and the different types of contracts offered to male and female workers.
However, during the period 1936-1960 the nature of contracts changed markedly in the fish-canning sector as a consequence of new legislation.
At the time there were 60 retirement contracts covering 74 persons.
In tenant farmers' contracts the amount of corn was almost always halved on the death of one of the spouses.
Landholders contracted earlier marriages and therefore had more children.
The description in the previous section may give the impression that contracts varied so much that no theory could encompass all of them.
The early colonia contracts already placed restrictions on building.
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Collocations with contract
These are words often used in combination with contract.
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Second, as already mentioned in the introduction, there is a serious loss of liquidity for the buyer of the annuity contract.
Delays in product development, cramped kitchens and the ongoing franchisee contract dispute prevented the chain from rolling out a grilled product of its own.
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