contract

1. contract (noun) — sense 1

Definition: 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.

Example: sign a contract

2. contract (noun) — sense 2

Definition: 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.: A period of work agreed to under a temporary contract.

Example: He worked a six-month contract on an oil rig.

3. contract (noun) — sense 3

Definition: 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.

4. contract (adj) — sense 4

Definition: Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Example: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel

5. contract (adj) — sense 5

Definition: Not abstract; concrete.

Example: But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.