…a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law…
…a certificate confirming the terms of a sale of specified assets or securities between two parties…
…the standard form of the card game bridge, in which only tricks bid and won count towards the game, as opposed to auction bridge…
…a contract whose requirements are partly fulfilled by the awarding of subcontracts…
…an obligation of one party to another imposed by law independently of an agreement between the parties…
…an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects…
…an informal agreement traded through a broker-dealer network to buy and sell specified assets, typically currency, at a specified price at a certain future date…
…an agreement traded on an organized exchange to buy or sell assets, especially commodities or shares, at a fixed price but to be delivered and paid for later…
…a business agreement between a contractor and customer covering the maintenance and servicing of equipment over a specified period…
…a subsidiary contract which induces a person to enter into a main contract or which depends upon the main contract for its existence…
…the relation between the parties in a contract which entitles them to sue each other but prevents a third party from doing so…
…a contract between a worker and an employer in which the worker agrees not to remain in or join a union…
…choose to withdraw from or not become involved in a scheme…
…arrange for work to be done by another organization…
…employ a firm or person outside one’s company to do (work) as part of a larger project…
…a card game related to whist, played by two partnerships of two players who at the beginning of each hand bid for the right to name the trump suit, the highest bid also representing a contract to make a specified number of tricks with a specified suit as trumps…
