English-Lithuanian translations for contract

• kontraktas
• sutartis
  Šiuo metu jo sutartis yra pratęsta. His contract has now been extended.
  Sutartis yra lyg ir prekybinis sandėris, o susitarimas - lyg ir santuoka. A contract is like a deal; a covenant is like a marriage.
  Ši sutartis nebuvo paviešinta. That contract has not been made public.

Definition of contract

• 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
• 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
• An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone
• The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump
• Contracted; affianced; betrothed
• Not abstract; concrete
• To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen
• To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one
• To enter into a contract with.
• To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain
• To bring on; to incur; to acquire
• To gain or acquire (an illness
• To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit
• To betroth; to affiance

Synonyms

• contract law

Examples

• Marriage is a contract
• The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him
• The snails body contracted into its shell.
• to contract ones sphere of action
• The word "cannot" is often contracted into "cant".
• to contract for carrying the mail
• She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
• to contract a debt

Related words

• contractible
• contracting
• contraction
• contractor
• contractual
• subcontract
• contracted
• contractually
• subcontractor