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contract

英[ˈkɒntrækt] 美[ˈkɑntrækt]

n. 合同，契约，协议；

复数：contracts;

过去式：contracted;

过去分词：contracted;

现在分词：contracting;

第三人称单数：contracts;

例句

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同义词解析

以下这些名词均包含 "协定，协议，契约，合同" 的意思
agreement ：普通用词，含义最确定，泛指个人、团体或国家之间取得一致而达成的任何协议、协定或合同、契约等，可以是口头的，也可以是书面的。
contract ：侧重指双方或多方订立的具有法律效力的正式的书面合同或契约。
treaty ：指国家之间经外交谈判后依照国际法签订的正式条约。
convention ：比treaty更专门化，但不及treaty正式。也可指国家之间就有关事情签订的条约。
bargain ：通常指商业交往中的购销合同。
understanding ：指不具约束力的非正式的协议。
accord ：多指国际间的非正式协议。
以下这些动词均包含 "收缩，压缩" 的意思
condense：指将东西压缩得更紧密、紧凑，但不失去原有的内容。
compress：指把乱而不成形的东西压成一定形状。
contract：主要指以内、外部力量进行紧缩，也可用作引申。
shrink：侧重指因收缩而达不到原有的长度、体积或容积。

英语四级真题

In those where ties to family and community are strong, lifelong marriages can be promoted by practices such as the cultural prohibition of divorce and arranged marriages that are seen as a contract between two families, not just two individuals.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

largely rely on marriage contracts

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They were obliged to fulfill the signed contract.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

英语六级真题

Robert Summers, who has taught at Cornell Law School for about 40 years, announced this week in a detailed, footnoted memorandum - that he would ban laptop computers from his class on contract law.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Those service contracts include unlimited data use.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It's a very important contract.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

合同;契约

A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
例句
The company won a prestigious contract for work on Europe's tallest building... 这家公司赢得了一份极为重要的合同，参与建设欧洲最高的大厦。 He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000. 他签下了一份为期7年的合同，年薪为15万美元。
VERB

签合同，订立契约(做某事)

If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you.
例句
You can contract with us to deliver your cargo... 你可以跟我们签订送货合同。 The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already contracted to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan. 波士顿美术博物馆已经签订合同，将其部分藏品租借给日本一家博物馆。
V-ERG

(使)收缩;(使)缩小;(使)缩短

When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter.
例句
Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts... 血液在心脏收缩的时候从心脏流出。 New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles. 新的研究表明，过量食用肉类和盐可能会导致肌肉收缩。
VERB

(经济、市场等)紧缩，缩小

When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller.
例句
The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month. 10月，制造业经济已经连续第6个月出现萎缩状况。
VERB

感染，患(病)

If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it.
例句
He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion... 他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。 Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer contracted by women. 卵巢癌是女性常患的第六大癌症。
VERB

订立(婚约);签订(盟约等)

If you contract a marriage, alliance, or other relationship with someone, you arrange to have that relationship with them.
例句
She contracted a formal marriage to a British ex-serviceman. 她和一个英国退役军人正式订婚了。
N-COUNT

买凶杀人的协议

If there is a contract on a person or on their life, someone has made an arrangement to have them killed.
例句
The convictions resulted in the local crime bosses putting a contract on him... 这些判罪导致当地犯罪团伙的老大们要雇凶杀他。 The police advised her to get out of town because there was a contract on her life. 警察建议她离开这个城市，因为有人雇杀手杀她。
PHRASE

签订工作合同的

If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no-one else, during a fixed period of time.
例句
The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers. 导演想要当时签约于华纳兄弟娱乐公司旗下的奥利维娅·德哈维兰出演。

英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.
染上(恶习, 疾病等)
Bad habits are easy to contract. 坏习惯很容易养成。 My son's contracted a severe fever. 我的儿子发高烧。
(使)收缩，(使)紧缩；(使)缩短；(使)皱缩
Metal contracts as it becomes cool. 金属冷却时体积缩小。
vt.
缔结; 订契约
They've contracted an agreement. 他们缔结了一项协议。 They have contracted to build a railway across Africa. 他们已立约承建一条穿越非洲的铁路。
缩约，紧缩(词、短语等)
The word “not” is generally contracted and used with a verb. “not”这个词一般都被缩约并与动词合成一体。
招致；负(债等)
He contracted huge debts by rash spending. 他由于大手大脚地花钱而负了大量的债。
与…结交，与…结识
Mr Brown contracted friendship with his neighbour. 布朗先生与他的邻居交了朋友。
n.
契约, 合同
Once you have reached formal agreement, you should enter into a contract with the other party. 你一旦达成正式协议, 就应该和对方签订合同。
vi.
订契约；承包
We contracted with a local clothing firm for 400 shirts a month. 我们与当地一家服装公司立约每月订购400件衬衫。

英英词典释义

Noun
1. a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
2. (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
3. a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
Verb
1. enter into a contractual arrangement
2. engage by written agreement;
"They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
3. squeeze or press together;
"she compressed her lips""the spasm contracted the muscle"
4. become smaller or draw together;
"The fabric shrank""The balloon shrank"
5. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;
"He got AIDS""She came down with pneumonia""She took a chill"
6. make smaller;
"The heat contracted the woollen garment"
7. compress or concentrate;
"Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
8. make or become more narrow or restricted;
"The selection was narrowed""The road narrowed"
9. reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
"The manuscript must be shortened"

行业词典

公路科技：合同；
医学：收缩，缩短：如肌肉的收缩；获得，招致；
旅游：合同；
水利：承包合同；确定发包与承包双方的权利与义务，并受法律保护的契约性文件。；
法律：协议；契约；承办；约据；订约；立约；合同；
金融：现金交易；合约；定幅式远期合约；