Contract vs. Bond

Contractnoun

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.

Contractnoun

(legal) 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.

Contractnoun

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

Contractnoun

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

Contractnoun

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Contractverb

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

Contractverb

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Contractverb

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

Contractverb

(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

Contractverb

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Contractverb

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Contractverb

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

Contractverb

To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Contractverb

To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Contractverb

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.

Contractverb

To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

Contractadjective

Contracted; as, a contract verb.

Contractadjective

Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Contractnoun

The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.

Contractnoun

A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

Contractnoun

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

Contractnoun

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

Contractnoun

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

Contractnoun

a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

Contractverb

enter into a contractual arrangement

Contractverb

engage by written agreement;

Contractverb

squeeze or press together;

Contractverb

become smaller or draw together;

Contractverb

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

Contractverb

make smaller;

Contractverb

compress or concentrate;

Contractverb

make or become more narrow or restricted;

Contractverb

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Contract

A contract is a legally binding document between at least two parties that defines and governs the rights and duties of the parties to an agreement. A contract is legally enforceable because it meets the requirements and approval of the law.

Bondnoun

(legal) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.

Bondnoun

(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.

Bondnoun

A physical connection which binds, a band; often plural.

Bondnoun

An emotional link, connection or union.

Bondnoun

Moral or political duty or obligation.

Bondnoun

(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.

Bondnoun

A binding agreement, a covenant.

Bondnoun

A bail bond.

Bondnoun

Any constraining or cementing force or material.

Bondnoun

(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying.

Bondnoun

In Scotland, a mortgage.

Bondnoun

(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

Bondnoun

A peasant; churl.

Bondnoun

A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.

Bondverb

(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.

Bondverb

(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).

Bondverb

To form a chemical compound with.

Bondverb

(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.

Bondverb

To form a friendship or emotional connection.

Bondverb

(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse.

Bondverb

To lay bricks in a specific pattern.

Bondverb

To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).

Bondverb

To bail out by means of a bail bond.

Bondadjective

Subject to the tenure called bondage.

Bondadjective

In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.

Bondadjective

Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.

Bondnoun

That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.

Bondnoun

The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint.

Bondnoun

A binding force or influence; a cause of union; a uniting tie; as, the bonds of fellowship.

Bondnoun

Moral or political duty or obligation.

Bondnoun

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum.

Bondnoun

A financial instrument (of the nature of the ordinary legal bond) made by a government or a corporation for purpose of borrowing money; a written promise to pay a specific sum of money on or before a specified day, given in return for a sum of money; as, a government, city, or railway bond.

Bondnoun

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

Bondnoun

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English bond or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

Bondnoun

A unit of chemical attraction between atoms; as, oxygen has two bonds of affinity. Also called chemical bond. It is often represented in graphic formulæ by a short line or dash. See Diagram of Benzene nucleus, and Valence. Several types of bond are distinguished by chemists, as double bond, triple bond, covalent bond, hydrogen bond.

Bondnoun

A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.

Bondnoun

League; association; confederacy.

Bondnoun

A vassal or serf; a slave.

Bondverb

To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise) by giving a bond.

Bondverb

To dispose in building, as the materials of a wall, so as to secure solidity.

Bondadjective

In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

Bondnoun

an electrical force linking atoms

Bondnoun

a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

Bondnoun

a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;

Bondnoun

(criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial;

Bondnoun

a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)

Bondnoun

a connection that fastens things together

Bondnoun

a superior quality of strong durable white writing paper; originally made for printing documents

Bondnoun

United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

Bondnoun

British secret operative 007 in novels by Ian Fleming

Bondnoun

the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition

Bondverb

stick to firmly;

Bondverb

create social or emotional ties;

Bondverb

issue bonds on

Bondverb

bring together in a common cause or emotion;

Bondadjective

held in slavery;