contract : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power
  adhesion contract.
  

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• noun a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the outcome of a wager it is not enforceable)
  

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• noun a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee)
  

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• noun a breach of a legal duty; failure to do something that is required in a contract
  

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• noun a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations
  

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• (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.

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

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• verb consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use
  

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• noun a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer
  

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• noun that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts
  

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• noun a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts); implies inequality in bargaining power
  adhesion contract.
  

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• noun a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage
  sale in gross.
  

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• noun offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate
  

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• verb assign a job to someone outside one's own business
  
• verb refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use
  

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• noun a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached
  sealed instrument; contract under seal.
  

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• noun a contract in which the contractor is paid his total cost plus a stated percentage of profit
  

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• (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.

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• (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other.

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• noun contract between employer and employee
  employment agreement.
  

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• noun an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date; the contract can be sold before the settlement date
  

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• noun a contract whose performance by one party is contingent on the outcome of a bet; unenforceable by statute in most jurisdictions
  

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• (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

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• noun contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions
  labor agreement; collective agreement.
  

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• (Law), contract of which the whole evidence is given in writing. Bouvier.

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• noun a prenuptial agreement or contract
  marriage settlement.
  

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• noun an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation
  

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• noun a contract in which you promise to deliver your entire output to the other party who promises to accept it
  

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• (Law), any contract not of record or under seal, whether oral or written; a simple contract.

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• noun a contract stating the terms of a purchase
  purchase agreement.
  

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• noun a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent
  

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• noun a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party
  

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• noun a contract for maintenance services
  

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• noun a contract which, in the event of a breach by one of the parties, can be considered as several independent agreements expressed in a single instrument
  

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• (Law), any contract, whether verbal or written, which is not of record or under seal. J. W. Smith. Chitty.

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• noun an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection
  

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• noun a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached
  sealed instrument; contract under seal.
  

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• noun the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
  lease.
  

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• (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect himself.

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• noun a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)
  

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• (Law), a contract or engagement requiring future action only by one party.

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• noun a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union
  

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