Contract Definition
- to assign (a job) by contract; specif., to subcontract
- to withdraw from a contract or agreement
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Contract
Origin of Contract
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From Middle English, from Middle French contracter, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”). the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Latin contractus past participle of contrahere to draw together, make a contract com- com- trahere to draw
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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