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contract
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?n'tr?kt
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?nt?ækt/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?nt?ækt/
Noun
contract (plural contracts)
- 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.
- Synonyms: compact, pact
- (law) 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.
- (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
Synonyms
- (part of legal studies): contract law
Hypernyms
- (agreement that is legally binding): agreement
Hyponyms
- (agreement that is legally binding): bailment
Derived terms
- contract of employment
- contractual
- fixed-term contract
Translations
Adjective
contract (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Middle French contracter, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”). The verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?ntr?kt, IPA(key): /k?n?t?ækt/
Verb
contract (third-person singular simple present contracts, present participle contracting, simple past and past participle contracted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
- to contract one's sphere of action
- 1835, William Wordsworth, The Armenian Lady's Love
- Years contracting to a moment.
- 1675, Richard Allestree, The Government of the Tongue
- We see in all things how desuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties.
- (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
- (transitive) To enter into a contract with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- We have contracted an inviolable amitie, peace, and league with the aforesaid Queene.
- 1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials
- Many persons […] had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity […] prohibited by law.
- (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- to contract for carrying the mail
- (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
- to contract a debt
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Mr. Jervas
- Each from each contract new strength and light.
- c. 1703-1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen
- That kind of behaviour, which we contract by having too much conversation with persons of high station.
- (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
- 1999, Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals, page 69:
- An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim […]
- 1999, Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals, page 69:
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- To betroth; to affiance.
Synonyms
- (lessen): abate, decrease, lessen, reduce
- (shorten): shorten, shrink
- (gain or acquire (an illness)): catch, get
Antonyms
- (lessen): increase, expand
- (shorten): grow, lengthen
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch contract, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrah? (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?tr?kt/
- Hyphenation: con?tract
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
contract n (plural contracten, diminutive contractje n)
- contract
Synonyms
- overeenkomst
Derived terms
- arbeidscontract
- contractarbeider
- contractbreuk
- handelscontract
- huurcontract
- koopcontract
Related terms
- contracteren
- contractueel
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kontrak
- ? Indonesian: kontrak
- ? West Frisian: kontrakt
Romanian
Etymology
From French contrat, from Latin contractus.
Noun
contract n (plural contracte)
- contract
Declension
Scots
Etymology
From English contract.
Noun
contract (plural contracts)
- contract
Welsh
Etymology
From English contract.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?ntrakt/
Noun
contract m (plural contractau)
- contract
- Synonym: cytundeb
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “contract”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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crowd
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English crouden, from Old English cr?dan, from Proto-Germanic *kr?dan?, *kreudan?. Cognate with Dutch kruien.
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
- (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
- (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
- Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in
- Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.
- (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
- (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.
- 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain
- (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
- (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
- (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
- (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
Synonyms
- becrowd (dated)
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
- A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
- Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
- (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
- A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Synonyms
- (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
- (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
- (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.
Noun
crowd (plural crowds)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.
- 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels
- (now dialectal) A fiddle.
Derived terms
- crowder
Verb
crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
- Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.
- 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law
References
crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- c-word
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