kwangila, kwantaregi, yarjejeniya
Pronunciation
- noun
- enPR: kŏn'trăkt
- (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒntrækt/, SAMPA: /"kQntr{kt/
- (US) IPA: /ˈkɑntrækt/, SAMPA: /"kAntr{kt/
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- verb
Noun
- (countable) A contract is a legal agreement to trade goods, services and/or property. It's usually written down.
- Synonyms: commission, promise, commitment and convention
- If you would just sign this contract, the car will be yours.
- In Japan, most worker’s employment contracts last until the age of sixty.
- My father’s employment contract is for forty years.
- You must look over the contract before you sign it.
Verb
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Plain form (yanzu) |
3rd-person singular (ana cikin yi) |
Past tense (ya wuce) |
Past participle (ya wuce) |
Present participle (ana cikin yi) |
- (intransitive) If something contracts, it gets smaller.
- Antonym: expand
- As the wood dries out, it contracts.
- (transitive) If you contract someone to do a job, you enter into a contract with them.
- Synonyms: commission and promise
- We've contracted a cleaning company to take care of the office.
- When there's too much work, there are a number of small firms to which we will contract it out.
- (transitive) If you contract a disease, you become sick with it.
- It's hard to understand why people risk contracting sexually transmitted diseases.
- He contracted the flu.