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(countable, law) An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
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Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
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(law) The right of an architect to retain a client's papers until the architect's fees have been paid.
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(law, historical) Money or some other valuable item given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.
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A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
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(law) A document that effects this transfer.
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An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
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(law) A form of conveyance by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase, i.e. the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession.
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(law) One who makes a bargain or contract with another, especially to sell property.
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(law, finance) A formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels.
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(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
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The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
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(law) A bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price.
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(obsolete) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact.
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A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
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A promissory note possessing a cognovit clause.
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(accounting) A department that attempts to collect on accounts that are beyond merely past due.
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An agreement or contract.
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A process in which the public sector requires private firms to bid for contracts or projects in order to provide goods or services to the public.
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(law) an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
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(law, UK, Ireland) An order made, usually for the purchase of land required for a construction project.
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(law) Money that is paid in some legal systems to an individual under the compulsion of a summons to witness (subpoena) to pay for their expenses to attend in court.
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(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
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The method used during a procurement in order to evaluate the tender offers taking part and award the relevant contract.
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(law) A contract that involves an exchange of goods, services or property to be exchanged from seller (or vendor) to buyer (or purchaser) for an agreed upon value in money (or money equivalent) paid or the promise to pay same.
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To hire an outside service for a project instead of handling it internally; to sign a contract for provision of a good or service.
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(law enforcement) The system of selling the labor of convicts to a contractor, who provides the necessary materials and supervises the work in the premises of the prison.
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(historical) The purchase of agricultural produce by the Soviet government from an individual farmer or collective.
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Obsolete form of contractor. [A person or company that builds or improves buildings.]
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A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
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(accounting) A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider.
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(law) An instrument transferring title of an object from one person or group of persons to another.
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A length of time in which the two sides to a purchase agreement, or contract can think things over and cancel with no penalty. This period is often stipulated by national law. In the UK it is currently (2008) 14 days. In many countries it is 10 days.
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One who makes a covenant.
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(finance) A document defining the final terms of an agreement between buyer and seller, typically of a company's assets or stock.
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(law, banking) A contractual agreement governing the handling of deposited assets, for example in a bank.
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Money agreed in settlement of a divorce.
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(American spelling) A document issued to a specific person by a government authority, permitting this person to drive one or more classes of motor vehicle on public roads and highways. As the licence generally has a photograph of the licensee, it is generally used as an identification document, and may be required when making credit purchases, cashing checks, applying for employment etc.
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Synonym of learner's permit
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The person to whom something is transferred by endorsement.
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(historical) Someone serving under a contract of engagement.
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(law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
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(law) The act of taking possession.
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(Canada, law) In a divorce agreement, a payment made by one spouse to the other in order to create an equal division of assets.
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(law, Scotland) exchange or barter, especially of lands.
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(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland, idiomatic) To formally contract to purchase, sell or otherwise be party to a disposition of an estate in land; usually requiring the payment of a deposit by one of the parties.
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(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland) The act of exchanging contracts.
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(finance, law) A contractual agreement relating to finance.
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The process of collecting money by requesting donations from individuals and businesses.
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Alternative form of futures contract [(finance) A standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a stated price (the futures price).]
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A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
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(law) A test to determine whether an instrument qualifies as an "investment contract" for the purposes of the Securities Act of 1933: it must be "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person invests his money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits solely from the efforts of the promoter or a third party".
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The day or date on which a company issues an agreement or contract.
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A search for employment.
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An agreement or compact.
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A place or table where people carry out negotiations, with the object of reaching an agreement.
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The process of achieving agreement through discussion.
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Allowing for or capable of negotiation.
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(law) To replace a contract (especially a financial contract) with one or more new contracts.
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The purchaser of a financial option.
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(intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
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Alternative form of pair bond [A relationship, often permanent, formed between a male and female animal; initiated during courtship and maintained after mating.]
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(law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands.
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The act of procuring something.
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Efficient contrivance; management; agency.
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(business) A document that acts as evidence of someone having bought something, such as a receipt
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(accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
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(law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
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(Britain) The requisitioning of goods and services for royal use.
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A movement within financial trading that stresses service providers’ obligations to shield financial traders from the risk factors in trading.
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to change the zoning assigned to a piece of property by the planning and zoning commission of a government that determines proper and legal use for land.
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A license agreement whose contents may only be read and accepted after a product has been purchased and the packaging removed.
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(informal) A stipulation.
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A higher rate of an existing tax.
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(law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
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One to whom an offer or contract is tendered. It is the person, group of people, company or institution who has work they need to be done. They will tender this work out for tenderers to bid for.
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(UK, law, obsolete) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.
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(politics) An agreement between two or more countries, often in the form of a treaty, establishing the conditions under which products from each country may be exported to the other.
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The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
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(law) An entity designated by a publicly-traded corporation to keep track of the ownership of the corporation's stocks and bonds
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Someone who transfers his property to another.
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(intransitive) To enter into a treaty.
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One who enters into, or offers themself for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
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(law, UK) A legally binding document that puts the main terms of employment, such as pay, working hours, holidays, applicable collective agreement, sick leave and pension in writing, and which an employer is required to give to an employee.
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(law) An agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union whilst employed.
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