a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

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

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

enter into a contractual arrangement

engage by written agreement

squeeze or press together

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

become smaller or draw together

make smaller

compress or concentrate

make or become more narrow or restricted

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

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

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

a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer

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

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

a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage

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

assign a job to someone outside one's own business

refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use

a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached

(of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection

reduced in size or pulled together

capable of contracting or being contracted

a bodily organ that contracts

the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter

becoming infected

(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

(law) a party to a contract

a bodily organ that contracts

relating to or part of a binding legal agreement

by virtue of a contract

an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle