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1under contract — required to provide something (such as work or a service) according to the terms stated in a contract She is under contract with the TV station for three more years. • • • Main Entry: ↑contract …
2Contract for difference — In finance, a contract for difference (or CFD) is a contract between two parties, typically described as buyer and seller , stipulating that the buyer will pay to the seller the difference between the current value of an asset and its value at… …
3Contract for future sale — A contract for future sale is a sales contract under which a farmer agrees to deliver products of specified quality and quantity to a buyer for a specified price within a prescribed time frame. Contract sales are a growing practice, recently… …
4be under contract — ► LAW to have made a formal agreement with another person or company, and be legally responsible for doing what you have agreed to do: »We re under contract to complete the job by the end of the year. ► PROPERTY if a building or property is under …
5SADD Contract for Life — The SADD Contract for Life is an agreement between a parent and child created by SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions). In it the child agrees to try to refrain from destructive behavior and to call a parent if they are ever in a… …
6contract labor — ˈkän.ˌtrakt noun 1. : labor based on a free but legally enforceable contract 2. : labor imported from a foreign country under agreement to work for a particular employer * * * 1. labor coercible by the enforceable provisions of a contract. 2.… …
7contract labor — 1. labor coercible by the enforceable provisions of a contract. 2. foreign labor supplied under contract for a particular job. * * * …
8contract — con·tract 1 / kän ˌtrakt/ n [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com with, together + trahere to draw] 1: an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to… …
9Contract — • The canonical and moralist doctrine on this subject is a development of that contained in the Roman civil law. In civil law, a contract is defined as the union of several persons in a coincident expression of will by which their legal relations …
10CONTRACT — (Heb. חוֹזֶה, ḥozeh), in general law theory a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, in terms of which one party undertakes for the benefit of the other to perform or refrain from a certain act. As such, contract is the main… …
