Usually means: Agreements creating obligations enforceable by law.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. contracts: Merriam-Webster
  2. contracts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contracts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contracts, contract's, contracts: Wordnik
  5. contracts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contracts: Wiktionary
  7. contracts: Dictionary.com
  8. contracts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Contracts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. contracts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. contracts: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. contracts: Legal dictionary
  3. contracts: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contracts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. contracts: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contracts: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contracts: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contract)

noun:  An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
noun:  (law) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
noun:  (law) The document containing such an agreement.
noun:  (law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
noun:  (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
noun:  (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
adjective:  (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
verb:  (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
verb:  (transitive) To enter into a contract with.
verb:  (transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
verb:  (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
verb:  (transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
verb:  (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
verb:  To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
verb:  To betroth; to affiance.
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