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contract noun

  /ˈkɑntɹækt/ , /ˈkɒntɹækt/
  • (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
 contracte

contract verb

  /kənˈtɹækt/
  • (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
 contreure, contraure
  • (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
 contreure

contraction noun

  /kɒn-/ , /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/ , /kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
  • (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
  • (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
  • (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
  • A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
 contracció
employment contract
contracte de treball
social contract
contracte social
didactic contract
contracte didàctic

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contractar verb

  /kon.tɾakˈta/ , /kon.tɾakˈtaɾ/ , /kon.tɾəkˈta/ , /kun.tɾəkˈta/
hire
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