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 prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
The difference between the prices of two similar items.
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
The difference between bidding and asking price.
The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
The act of spreading.
An expanse of land.
Something that has been spread.
A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
A numerical difference.
The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.