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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.
 sopimus
  • (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
 sitoumus
  • (legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
 sopimusoikeus
  • (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
 toimeksianto
  • An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
 urakka

contract verb

  /kənˈtɹækt/
  • (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
 sairastua
  • (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
 supistua, vetäytyä
  • (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
 tehdä sopimus

contraction noun

  /kɒn-/ , /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/ , /kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
  • (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 kontraktio, lähentyminen
  • (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 kontraktio, supistumamuoto
  • (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.
 kontraktio, supistuminen
  • (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.
 lihassupistus, supistus, synnytyssupistus
  • (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
 lyhennemerkki
  • A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
 supistuminen
  • (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
 taantuma
  • (archaic) An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete) , a betrothal.
  • (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”)
 tarttuminen, tartunta
futures contract
futuuri, futuurisopimus
employment contract
työsopimus
social contract
yhteiskuntasopimus
breach of contract
sopimusrikkomus
contract law
sopimusoikeus
freedom of contract
sopimusvapaus
zero-hour contract
nollasopimus, nollatuntisopimus, nollatyösopimus
contract killer
palkkamurhaaja
fixed-term contract
määräaikainen sopimus
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