Dictionary Entry
contract
contract is a 8-letter English word with 25 senses as noun, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 25 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
- 2noun
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- 3noun
To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- 4noun
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- 5noun
To betroth; to affiance.
- 6noun
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- 7intransitive verb
To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
- 8intransitive verb
To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
- 9adjective
Contracted; as, a contract verb.
- 10adjective
Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- 11noun
The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
- 12noun
A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
- 13noun
The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
- 14noun
a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
- 15noun
a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
- 16noun
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Synonyms
- 17verb
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
"He got AIDS"
"She came down with pneumonia"
- 18verb
become smaller or draw together
"The fabric shrank"
"The balloon shrank"
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- 19verb
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
"The manuscript must be shortened"
- 20verb
make or become more narrow or restricted
"The selection was narrowed"
"The road narrowed"
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- 21verb
compress or concentrate
"Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
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- 22verb
enter into a contractual arrangement
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- 23verb
make smaller
"The heat contracted the woollen garment"
- 24verb
squeeze or press together
"she compressed her lips"
"the spasm contracted the muscle"
- 25verb
engage by written agreement
"They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
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