Sentence examples for Contract from inspiring English sources

The word "contract" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, or when referring to a job or agreement that requires specific duties to be fulfilled on either side. For example: "The contract between the two companies outlined the parameters of their business arrangement."

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Contract

verb

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

  • The snail's body contracted into its shell.

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And it is not just something verbal with the coach but something that is written in the contract.

"EE's decision on Friday is surprising in the context of a contract that has more than a year to run and leaves the board with no alternative but to seek the administrator's protection in the interests of all its stakeholders".

He was suspended by the broadcaster on 10 March before it announced his contract would not be renewed.

Gisby was earmarked to receive a bonus of up to £371,000, but Network Rail said he would be leaving in February without any additional payment beyond that stipulated in his contract.

Prospective managers are apparently being unnerved by PSG's long-term interest in the Arsenal manager, Arsène Wenger, whom they still hope to hire at the end of his contract next summer.

He said a 2010 contract headed "Sale of Shares" really recorded a loan to his close friend, the then AWH chief executive Girolamo.

But according to Carr the long-delayed decision on Australia's next submarine contract could also be seen as taking sides on regional security issues.

After battling through the smorgasbord of showings, landlords and contract negotiations, the property is, to all intents and purposes, yours.

A security forces officer from Russia's Chechnya region and four other men have been charged in connection with shooting Nemtsov on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Kremlin on 27 February, but investigators have failed to get those behind what is widely believed to be a contract killing.

It is not a long contract, just six weeks, and I imagined I, too, might be able to serve out my time in office before anyone noticed my shortcomings, and my failure to harbour any cohesive hermetic vision.

But Purnell said there was no intention to contract out big-rating BBC shows such as EastEnders to independent producers as part of director general Tony Hall's plans to open up in-house production to more competition.

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