How do you use the word "contract" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "contract" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "contract": The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away. After much effort, he ended up with a contract.

Contract Meaning

/ˈkɒntɹækt/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounAn 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.

nounAn 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.

Sentence Examples

The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.

After much effort, he ended up with a contract.

All employees have a written contract of employment.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sign press squeeze

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The two companies will ____ a new agreement to expand their partnership.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the ____ right away.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far." — 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

"But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel" — 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1:

"But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte." — 1557, Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte:

"We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant." — 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Boasting”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 168:

"Mutual was the sudden transport; / Breathless questions followed fast, / Years contracting to a moment, / Each word greedier than the last; […]" — 1830, William Wordsworth, “The Armenian Lady’s Love”, in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and Edward Moxon, […], published 1835, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 102:

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