Contractual Meaning
/kəˈntræktʃuəl/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf, relating to, or enforced by a contract.
nounA contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project.
Sentence Examples
Enter in a contractual agreement with me and become a young magical girl!
Purchase obligations represent non-cancelable contractual obligations at December 31, 2016.
A contractual dispute arose after the client demanded extra work.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The two parties had a ____ obligation to complete the project by Friday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Enter in a ____ agreement with me and become a young magical girl!
Word Origin & History
Morphologically contract + -ual, from Latin contractus + -al.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
""For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences.""
— 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
"[…] Labor Day is just around the corner, hence, it is timely to examine the current and hot issues affecting the workers’ sector. One such issue concerns the matter of endos, contractuals and contractualized employees. / Endos, contractuals and contractualized employees do not enjoy full security of tenure rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Labor Code."
— 2018 April 26, Art Amansec, “Of endos, ‘contractuals‘ and contractualized employees”, in BusinessMirror:
"Serrano (2014, p. 84), meanwhile, claims that non-regular workers now account for around 30 percent of the labor force and that the top five industries that hire contractuals are real estate, renting and business activities, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, construction workers and hotels and restaurants."
— 2018, Mark R. Thompson, Eric Vincent C. Batalla, Routledge Handbook of the Contemporary Philippines, page 415:
"Under House Bill 2173, job contracting, subcontracting, direct-hiring of contractuals, and use of labor cooperatives are expressly prohibited with hefty fines and imprisonment."
— 2022 July 21, Wendell Vigilia, “Solons seek end to contractualization”, in Malaya Business Insight:
"Additionally, the CALM general ledger has no account comparable to the contra ( offset ) account maintained by private sector medical centers for contractuals and discounts."
— 1991, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care, H.R. 4935 and DVA's Medical Care Cost Recovery Program, page 96:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The two parties had a ____ obligation to complete the project by Friday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Enter in a ____ agreement with me and become a young magical girl!