Definitions For Contract

noun

  • A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
  • 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 legal agreement between people, companies, etc.
  • A document on which the words of a contract are written
  • An agreement to kill a person for money

verb

  • Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
  • Become smaller or draw together
  • Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
  • Make or become more narrow or restricted
  • Compress or concentrate
  • Enter into a contractual arrangement
  • Make smaller
  • Squeeze or press together
  • Engage by written agreement
  • To make (something) smaller or shorter
  • To become smaller
  • To become ill with (a disease)

Is Contract a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
15

The word Contract is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Contract in a Sentence

  • The contract requires him to finish work by the end of the year.
  • I tore up the contract.
  • Have you signed the contract yet?
  • She contracted her lips into a frown.
  • The muscle expands and then contracts.
  • The hot metal contracted as it cooled.

Synonyms for Contract

Antonyms for Contract

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