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

1. noun. To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
2. noun. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
3. noun. To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
4. noun. To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
5. noun. To betroth; to affiance.
6. noun. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
7. intransitive 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.
8. intransitive verb. To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
9. adjective. Contracted; as, a contract verb.
10. adjective. Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
11. noun. 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.
12. noun. A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
13. noun. The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
14. noun. a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
15. noun. a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
16. noun. (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

    Synonyms: declaration

17. verb. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

    "He got AIDS"

    "She came down with pneumonia"

    Synonyms: get, take

18. verb. become smaller or draw together

    "The fabric shrank"

    "The balloon shrank"

    Synonyms: shrink

19. verb. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

    "The manuscript must be shortened"

    Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten

20. verb. make or become more narrow or restricted

    "The selection was narrowed"

    "The road narrowed"

    Synonyms: narrow

21. verb. compress or concentrate

    "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"

    Synonyms: concentrate, condense

22. verb. enter into a contractual arrangement

    Synonyms: undertake

23. verb. make smaller

    "The heat contracted the woollen garment"

24. verb. squeeze or press together

    "she compressed her lips"

    "the spasm contracted the muscle"

    Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze

25. verb. engage by written agreement

    "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"

    Synonyms: sign

Synonyms

declaration, get, take, shrink, abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten, narrow, concentrate, condense, undertake, compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze, sign

Common word forms

contracts, contracted, contracter, contractly, contracting, contractable

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