contract

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒntɹækt/|/ˈkɔntɹakt/    美 /ˈkɑntɹækt/|/ˈkɔntɹækt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — sign a contract
  2. 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.
  3. The document containing such an agreement.
  4. A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
  5. An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone. informal
    — The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
  6. The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
动词 v.
  1. To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. ambitransitive
    — The snail’s body contracted into its shell.
  2. To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
    — The word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”.
  3. To make an agreement or contract; to covenant. intransitive
    — The company contracted with the council to build 200 new houses.
  4. To enter into a contract with (someone or something). transitive
    — We have just contracted new pest control services.
  5. To enter into (an agreement) with mutual obligations; to make (an arrangement). archaic,transitive
    — We have contracted an inviolable amitie, peace, and league with the aforesaid Queene.
  6. To bring on; to incur; to acquire. transitive
    — She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
  7. To gain or acquire (an illness). transitive
    — At that time, the city [Christiania, now Oslo] was in the grip of a cholera epidemic, and victims were dying at the rate of 60 a day. Bradshaw contracted the disease, and died on September 6 [1853].
  8. To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
    — And didſt contract, and purſe thy brow together, / As if thou then hadſt ſhut vp in thy braine, / Some horrible counſell: […]
  9. To betroth; to affiance.
    — The truth is, ſhe and I (long ſince contracted) / Are now ſo ſure that nothing can diſſolve vs: […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Contracted; affianced; betrothed. not-comparable,obsolete
    — But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel
  2. Not abstract; concrete. not-comparable,obsolete
    — But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.

词形变化

contracts plural contracts present,singular,third-person contracting participle,present contracted participle,past contracted past

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
词源 2
From Middle English, from Middle French contracter, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”). The verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.
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