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contract noun

  /ˈkɑntɹækt/ , /ˈkɒntɹækt/
  • 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.
  • (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.
 契約
  • (legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
 契約法学

contract verb

  /kənˈtɹækt/
  • (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
 収縮する
  • (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant.
 契約する
  • (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
 罹る

contraction noun

  /kɒn-/ , /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/ , /kənˈtɹækʃn̩/ , /kəɳˈʈrakʃən/ , /ˈkɔɳʈrakʃən/
  • A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
 収縮
  • (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.
 攣縮, 陣痛
  • (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
 短縮形
  • (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.
 約音化
breach of contract
違約
employment contract
労働契約
social contract
社会契約
futures contract
先物, 先物取引
contract bridge
コントラクトブリッジ
substantial contract
要物契約
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