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 cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
To be the editor of a publication.
To change a text, or a document.
A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
An edited piece of media, especially video footage.
A change to the text of a document.