work by contract
21contract — ► NOUN 1) a written or spoken agreement intended to be enforceable by law. 2) informal an arrangement for someone to be killed by a hired assassin. ► VERB 1) decrease in size, number, or range. 2) (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order …
22contract to work — index indenture Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
23work — [n1] labor, chore assignment, attempt, commission, daily grind*, drudge, drudgery, effort, elbow grease*, endeavor, exertion, functioning, grind, grindstone*, industry, job, moil, muscle, obligation, pains*, performance, production, push, salt… …
24work-to-rule — noun singular a situation in which workers protest by doing only the exact work that their contract says they must do …
25Contract 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 …
26work to rule — Employees performing their duties strictly to the letter of their contract (that is, refusing to take on any additional duties), the aim being to slow down production or otherwise disrupt the employer s business. Practical Law Dictionary.… …
27work-to-rule — Employees performing their duties strictly to the letter of their contract (that is, refusing to take on any additional duties), the aim being to slow down production or otherwise disrupt the employer s business. Practical Law Dictionary.… …
28contract — a legally binding agreement between two or more parties. Glossary of Business Terms A legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties for performing, or refraining from performing, some specified act; e.g., delivering 5,000 bushels of… …
29Contract — A term of reference describing a unit of trading for a financial or commodity future. Also, the actual bilateral agreement between the buyer and seller of a transaction as defined by an exchange. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I.… …
30contract — contractee, n. contractible, adj. contractibility, contractibleness, n. contractibly, adv. n., adj., and usu. for v. 16 18, 22, 23 /kon trakt/; otherwise v. /keuhn trakt /, n. 1. an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing …
