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• all employees have a written contract of employment.
• a research/modelling/recording contract
• a lucrative government contract
• to enter into/negotiate/sign a contract with the supplier

contract

1. an official written agreement
• SEE ALSO social contract
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• All employees have a written contract of employment.
• a research/modelling/recording contract
• a lucrative government contract
• to enter into/negotiate/sign a contract with the supplier
• These clauses form part of the contract between buyer and seller.
• a contract for the supply of vehicles
• to win/be awarded a contract to build a new school
• to renew/extend/terminate/cancel a contract
• I was on a three-year contract that expired last week.
• She is under contract to (= has a contract to work for) a major American computer firm.
• The phone costs several hundred dollars more out of contract (= without a contract with a phone company).
• The midfielder will be out of contract at the end of the season (= his contract with his club will have finished).
• a contract worker (= one employed on a contract for a fixed period of time)
• Under the terms of the contract the job should have been finished yesterday.
• They were sued for breach of contract (= not doing what they agreed to do in a contract).
• He had a release clause written into his contract.
• The offer has been accepted, subject to contract (= the agreement is not official until the contract is signed).

Extra Examples

• By using cheaper materials, the company has broken the terms of its contract.
• Do you have a contract with your employer?
• Eighteen companies are bidding for the contract.
• Either party can terminate the contract at any time.
• He entered into a contract with his former employer.
• He's on a three-year fixed-term contract.
• If you go on strike you will be in breach of contract.
• Many workers do not have written contracts.
• My advertising firm just won a lucrative contract with a cigarette company.
• She managed to negotiate a permanent contract with the company.
• The company is being sued for breach of contract.
• The contract expires at the end of next year.
• The contract was declared void.
• The firm lost the contract to a large London company.
• The successful bidder must exchange contracts immediately and pay a deposit.
• They put a clause in the contract stipulating that the work should be finished by next month.
• They won a contract for the delivery of five fighter planes.
• Under her contract of employment, Mrs Lee could not be required to work at a different site.
• You should make sure that you have a formal contract of employment.
• a series of major contracts worth millions of pounds
• the company fulfilling the construction contract
• the contract between the employer and the employee
• the firm carrying out the construction contract
• The company is currently negotiating a contract to build a new hotel development.
2. an agreement to kill somebody for money
• She took out a contract on her ex-husband.
• He has a contract out on you.

Word Origin

• Middle English: via Old French from Latin contractus, from contract- ‘drawn together, tightened’, from the verb contrahere, from con- ‘together’ + trahere ‘draw’.