noun 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
noun A period of work agreed to under a temporary contract.
He worked a six-month contract on an oil rig.
noun 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.
noun The document containing such an agreement.
noun A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
noun An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
noun The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.