To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
To enter into a contract with.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To betroth; to affiance.
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
To gain or acquire (an illness).
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
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.
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.
The document containing such an agreement.
A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To feel generous or optimistic.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
To speak or write at length or in detail.