Contract

['kɒntrækt] or ['kɑntrækt]

解释:

(noun.) a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid.

(noun.) a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law.

(noun.) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make.

(verb.) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; 'He got AIDS'; 'She came down with pneumonia'; 'She took a chill'.

(verb.) enter into a contractual arrangement.

(verb.) make smaller; 'The heat contracted the woollen garment'.

编辑:兰尼--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

(n.) To betroth; to affiance.

(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.

(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

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同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Lessen, shorten, narrow, diminish, abridge, reduce, epitomize, draw together.[2]. Incur, bring, procure, get, assume, take upon one's self, become liable to.

v. n. [1]. Shrivel, shrink, shrink up.[2]. Agree, stipulate, bargain, covenant, make a bargain.

n. Compact, bargain, stipulation, covenant, convention, concordat, treaty, agreement, pact, arrangement.

手打:谢莉

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Abridge, abbreviate, narrow, lessen, reduce, compress, decrease, retrench,curtail, form, agree

ANT:Expand, amplify, dilate, elongate, reverse, cancel, abandon

编辑:波西亚

解释:

v.t. to draw together: to lessen: to shorten: to acquire: to incur: to bargain for: to betroth.—v.i. to shrink: to become less.—n. Con′tract an agreement on fixed terms: a bond: a betrothment: the writing containing an agreement.—adj. Contract′ed drawn together: narrow: mean.—adv. Contract′edly.—ns. Contract′edness; Contractibil′ity Contract′ibleness.—adjs. Contract′ible capable of being contracted; Contract′ile tending or having power to contract.—ns. Contractil′ity; Contrac′tion act of contracting: a word shortened by rejecting a part of it: a symbol for shortening in pal鎜graphy &c.—adj. Contract′ive tending to contract.—n. Contract′or one of the parties to a bargain or agreement: one who engages to execute work or furnish supplies at a fixed rate.—adj. Contract′ual.—Contract one's self out of to get rid of some general obligation by making a special contract; Contract work work done for a fixed sum estimated beforehand and paid down for the whole job.

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