contract system
1Contract system — Con tract sys tem 1. The sweating system. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to …
2contract system — The system in vogue in the management of the prisons whereby the labor of prisoners is sold or farmed out by contract. People v Hawkins, 157 NY 1, 51 NE 257 …
3contract system — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : an arrangement whereby industrial activities are carried out by a contractor intermediary between the manufacturer or entrepreneur and the workers 2. : the system of selling to a contractor at a fixed sum per unit of time the …
4contract system — As applied to state prisons, this phrase signifies that the labor of the prisoners is utilized by private persons or contractors …
5contract system — As applied to state prisons, this phrase signifies that the labor of the prisoners is utilized by private persons or contractors …
6Contract Grading — is a form of grading which results from an instructor to student cooperation, and entails contracted number of assignments of specified quality that correspond to specific letter grades. Contract grading may be contrasted with other grading… …
7contract shop — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : a shop operating under a contract system 2. : closed shop 3. : a shop in which conditions of employment are covered by a collective agreement …
8Contract bridge — Bridge declarer play Alternative name(s) Bridge Type trick taking Players 4 Skill(s) require …
9CONTRACT — (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… …
10Contract Net Protocol — (CNP) is a task sharing protocol in multi agent systems, consisting of a collection of nodes or software agents that form the contract net . Each node on the network can, at different times or for different tasks, be a manager or a contractor.… …
