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 get narrower.
To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
Having a small margin or degree.
Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.