Contract vs. Reduce

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.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower, to impair.

Reduceverb

(intransitive) To lose weight.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

Reduceverb

(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.

Reduceverb

To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

Reduceverb

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

Reduceverb

To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

Reduceverb

To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

Reduceverb

To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

Reduceverb

To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form

Reduceverb

To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to writing").

Reduceverb

To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

Reduceverb

To reform a line or column from (a square).

Reduceverb

To translate (a book, document, etc.).

Reduceverb

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

Reduceverb

To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.

Reduceverb

To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

Reduceverb

To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.

Reduceverb

To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

Reduceverb

To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.

Reduceverb

To add an electron to an atom or ion.

Reduceverb

To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.

Reduceverb

cut down on; make a reduction in;

Reduceverb

make less complex;

Reduceverb

bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;

Reduceverb

simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

Reduceverb

lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;

Reduceverb

be the essential element;

Reduceverb

reduce in size; reduce physically;

Reduceverb

lessen and make more modest;

Reduceverb

make smaller;

Reduceverb

to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons

Reduceverb

narrow or limit;

Reduceverb

put down by force or intimidation;

Reduceverb

undergo meiosis;

Reduceverb

reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

Reduceverb

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Reduceverb

be cooked until very little liquid is left;

Reduceverb

cook until very little liquid is left;

Reduceverb

lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;

Reduceverb

take off weight