The phrase "a type of contract" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when categorizing or describing a specific kind of contract within a broader context.
Example: "A lease agreement is a type of contract that outlines the terms between a landlord and a tenant."
Alternatives: "a category of agreement" or "a form of contract".
Like an increasing number of new franchise owners, Ms. Solomon has entered into a type of contract known as an "area development agreement".
Even Robert Rubin, the Citigroup executive and former Treasury secretary, has admitted he had never heard of a type of contract responsible for major problems at Citi.
Straying from its main business of providing property and life insurance, A.I.G. wrote a type of contract known as credit-default swaps that protected holders of mortgage securities against defaults.
The Muni-Meter receipt is an official article of trust, a type of contract with the city's Department of Transportation that an old-fangled meter cannot spit out -- even if the driver in each case has to walk from the car to pay for at least 20 minutes of time.
Yet the same two western firms pulled out of rival consortiums bidding for Rosneft.Western firms would prefer to spend their money on "production-sharing agreements", a type of contract for exploiting oil and gas fields that insulates companies against changes in a country's tax regime.
Instead, the listed firm owns the rights to those revenues, under a type of contract that it believes to be valid but, its prospectus admits, is the subject of "substantial uncertainties" under Chinese law.If there is one lesson to be learned from the mix of bargains and dross on Alibaba's e-commerce sites, it is "buyer beware".
One rule allows the agency to survey the swaps market, a type of derivative contract that previously was off limits.
The new entities will collect once-private data about swap trades, a type of derivative contract that is tied to the value of a commodity, mortgage or other asset.
One woman, who asked not to be identified because she feared losing her job, said that she had been teaching in Florence for seven and a half years on a type of freelance contract.
Like many millennium projects with a scientific theme, the building was designed by the practice of Nicholas Grimshaw, although it was built under a type of construction contract that reduced the influence of the architect over the final realisation of the design, an early example of something that has now become commonplace.
Swaps are a type of derivative contract.
