Noun: contract
| Singular | contract |
| Plural | contracts |
Sample Sentences
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sign a contract
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write up a contract
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read a contract
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countersign a contract
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legally-binding contract
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unwritten contract
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Marriage is a contract.
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British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far. [2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
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He worked a six-month contract on an oil rig.
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The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
Nouns inflected like contract
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs). See: Latin Nouns '
contractus'.
Verbs referencing "contract"
Spanish Nouns
contrato, Zulu Nouns
inkontileka.