contracting
签约,签订合同,承包,缔约
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Definitions
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- : an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- : an agreement enforceable by law.
- : the written form of such an agreement.
- : the division of law dealing with contracts.
- : Also called contract bridge . a variety of bridge in which the side that wins the bid can earn toward game only that number of tricks named in the contract, additional points being credited above the line.Compare auction bridge.
- : a commitment by the declarer and his or her partner to take six tricks plus the number specified by the final bid made.the final bid itself.the number of tricks so specified, plus six.
- : the formal agreement of marriage; betrothal.
- : Slang. an arrangement for a hired assassin to kill a specific person.
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- : under contract; governed or arranged by special contract: a contract carrier.
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- : to draw together or into smaller compass; draw the parts of together: to contract a muscle.
- : to wrinkle: to contract the brows.
- : to shorten by combining or omitting some of its elements: Contracting “do not” yields “don't.”
- : to get or acquire, as by exposure to something contagious: to contract a disease.
- : to incur, as a liability or obligation: to contract a debt.
- : to settle or establish by agreement: to contract an alliance.
- : to assign by contract: The publisher contracted the artwork.
- : to enter into an agreement with: to contract a free-lancer to do the work.
- : to enter into.
- : to betroth.
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- : to become drawn together or reduced in compass; become smaller; shrink: The pupils of his eyes contracted in the light.
- : to enter into an agreement: to contract for snow removal.
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- : contract out, to hire an outside contractor to produce or do.
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Examples
Luminar and Mobileye’s agreement while small at the moment is still a production contract.
Engel-Natzke was the main point of contact while her dad was in the hospital, with her mother, Maggie, also contracting the virus at the same time.
He also revealed that two of his family members, his wife and one of his three children, contracted the coronavirus as well.
After two injury-plagued years, though, Oladipo must prove he is still an elite player worthy of a major long-term contract.
The Big Ten requires players who contract the virus to sit out for 21 days so they can go through cardiac screening before returning to the field.
As the New York Times writes, the risk of contracting Ebola in this country remains "vanishingly small."
But it is unfounded fear by an American public at minimal risk of contracting the illness that is confounding those efforts.
The military maintains that the risk of contracting the virus is minimal.
For the overwhelming majority of people in this country, the likelihood of contracting it is fleetingly small.
What remains unclear is just how many women McFarland may have knowingly put in danger of contracting HIV.
The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.
Again, he may have lucid intervals during which he is quite as capable of contracting as other persons.
The company is composed of three contracting persons without admitting therein any other whatever.
The savages, one by one, broke away from the group and began to circle rapidly to the left in a constantly contracting spiral.
It was not, however, to enter Spain without the agreement of both contracting parties.