To betroth; to affiance.
To enter into a contract with.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
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 loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
To set free a chemical substance.
To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
To make available to the public.
To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
To free or liberate; to set free.
(of a call) To hang up.
To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
to come out; be out.
To discharge.
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
The act or manner of ending a sound.
In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
Orgasm.
A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
That which is released, untied or let go.
Liberation from pain or suffering.