verb
noun
welk
shrink
draw in
acquire
short
shrimp
compact
hurkle
foreshorten
covenant
contractive
condition
precontract
cramp
contractualized
stipulate
indenture
flex
dibs
contractibleness
contractolated
term
contractually
procrusteanize
bargain
narrow
ex contractu
contract
over and above
lease
rent
charter
engage
shortchanger
hire
take
contractualist
shortify
tend
article
ink
bound
apprenticed
articled
indentured
abbreviated
circumscript
avail
shorthandedness
ordain
perform
abbreviate
commitment
scant
precontractual
syndetic
accommodation
punctation
definitize
scrimp
stipulated
chop down
outbargain
location
service level agreement
preengagement
negotiably
concession
understanding
carry someone's water
tender
counterbrief
keep one's side of the bargain
exchange of contracts
abbreviatory
astrict
vertically challenged
muchalka
lack
close
handfast
transaction
settle on
match
prebargaining
shy
financial agreement
prepartnership
brevi-
market
postcontractual
contractive
contractualized
contractolated
bound
apprenticed
articled
indentured
abbreviated
circumscript
precontractual
syndetic
stipulated
abbreviatory
vertically challenged
close
prebargaining
shy
prepartnership
postcontractual
contractually
ex contractu
over and above
negotiably
cramp
contractibleness
term
shortchanger
indenture
contractualist
compact
shorthandedness
commitment
accommodation
punctation
location
service level agreement
preengagement
concession
understanding
exchange of contracts
muchalka
transaction
match
financial agreement
welk
shrink
draw in
acquire
short
shrimp
compact
hurkle
foreshorten
covenant
condition
precontract
stipulate
indenture
flex
dibs
procrusteanize
bargain
narrow
contract
lease
rent
charter
engage
hire
take
shortify
tend
article
ink
avail
ordain
perform
abbreviate
scant
definitize
scrimp
chop down
outbargain
carry someone's water
tender
counterbrief
keep one's side of the bargain
astrict
lack
handfast
settle on
market
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
prep
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
adv
verb
noun
- The flesh of such crustaceans.
- Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
- A small, puny or unimportant person.
- Synonym of butterface: a person with an attractive body but unattractive face.
verb
- To form an agreement or contract.
- To make more dense; to compress.
- To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
noun
- An agreement or contract.
- A small, slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powderpuff; that fits into a woman's purse or handbag, or that slips into one's pocket.
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
adj
verb
- To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
- To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
noun
- That which confines or contracts.
- A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
- A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
- A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
verb
noun
noun
- Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
- A computer program that emulates a physical terminal.
- Specifically, the conditions in a legal contract that specify the price and also how and when payment must be made.
- A chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.
- The time during which legal courts are open.
- Certain days on which rent is paid.
- Duration of officeholding, or its limit; period in office of fixed length.
- The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- Relations among people.
- That which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.
- A word or phrase (e.g., noun phrase, verb phrase, open compound), especially one from a specialised area of knowledge; a name for a concept.
- Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
- The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
- A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
- A statue of the upper body, sometimes without the arms, ending in a pillar or pedestal.
- With respect to a pregnancy, the period during which birth usually happens (approximately 40 weeks from conception).
- One whose employment has been terminated
- Part of a year, especially one of the divisions of an academic year.
adj
verb
verb
- To make a bargain; to make a deal or contract for the exchange of property or services; to negotiate
- To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade
noun
- An item purchased for significantly less than the usual, or recommended, price
- A gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase.
- 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.
- The thing stipulated or purchased.
- An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
verb
- To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
- To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
- To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
- To get narrower.
noun
adj
- Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
- Having a small margin or degree.
- Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
- Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
- Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
- Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
- Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
verb
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- To enter into a contract with.
- To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To betroth; to affiance.
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
noun
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- 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.
- 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.
- The document containing such an agreement.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
verb
- engage for service under a term of contract
- let for money
- grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
- hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
noun
- a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
- the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
verb
- engage for service under a term of contract
- carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in
- consume all of one's attention or time
- engage or hire for work
- ask to represent; of legal counsel
- give to in marriage
- get caught
- carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns)
- hire for work or assistance
- keep engaged
verb
- engage for service under a term of contract
- carry out
- require (time or space)
- take somebody somewhere
- get into one's hands, take physically
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- take into one's possession
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- receive willingly something given or offered
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- require as useful, just, or proper
- experience or feel or submit to
- make a film or photograph of something
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- conquer by force
- occupy or take on
- admit into a group or community
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- be a student of a certain subject
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- head into a specified direction
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- receive or obtain regularly
- buy, select
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- have sex with; archaic use
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- be designed to hold or take
- be capable of holding or containing
- develop a habit
- proceed along in a vehicle
- obtain by winning
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
noun
verb
verb
- To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- To kindle; ignite; set on fire; light; inflame; burn.
- To look after (e.g. an ill person.)
- To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
adj
- bound by contract
- (usually followed by `to') governed by fate
- covered or wrapped with a bandage
- headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'
- bound by an oath
- confined in the bowels
noun
- a line determining the limits of an area
- the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
- the greatest possible degree of something
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
- confined by bonds
- held with another element, substance or material in chemical or physical union
- secured with a cover or binding; often used as a combining form
verb
verb
- To be of service to.
- To turn to the advantage of.
- To provide; to make available; to use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
- To promote; to assist.
- To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
noun
verb
- To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).
- To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.
- To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
- To do (something); to execute.
- To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
- To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
- To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).
- To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.
noun
- an engagement by contract involving financial obligation
- the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action
- a message that makes a pledge
- the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
noun
- An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
- The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
- The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
- The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
- Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
- The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
- A loan of money.
- A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
- Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
- An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.
- An accommodation bill or note.
- Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.
- The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
- Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
noun
- A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
- The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
- An act of locating.
- A leasing on rent.
noun
- A compromise: a partial yielding to demands or requests.
- A franchise: a business operated as a concession (see above).
- A concession road: a narrow road between tracts of farmland, especially in Ontario, from their origin during the granting of concessions (see above).
- The act of conceding.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent business within another's premises, as with concession stands.
- A preferential tax rate.
- A discounted price offered to certain classes of people, such as students or the elderly.
- An admission of defeat following an election.
- A territory—usually an enclave in a major port—yielded to the administration of a foreign power.
- A person eligible for a concession price (see above).
- A portion of a township, especially equal lots once granted to settlers in Canada.
- A right to operate a quasi-independent franchise of a larger company.
- The premises granted to a business as a concession (see below)
- An item sold within a concession (see above) or from a concessions stand.
- An admission of the validity of an opponent's point in order to build an argument upon it or to move on to another of greater importance; an instance of this.
- A right to use land or an offshore area for a specific purpose, such as oil exploration.
- A gift freely given or act freely made as a token of respect or to curry favor.
- Any admission of the validity or rightness of a point; an instance of this.
verb
verb
adj
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- Young and inexperienced.
noun
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- A formal offer to buy or sell something.
- A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
adv
adj
adj
- Short.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- A deal or business agreement.
- A social interaction.
- A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
- An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
- The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
noun
- An agreement or compact.
- A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- A marriage.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- Suitability.
- A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
verb
- To make a successful match or pairing.
- To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- To equal or exceed in achievement.
- To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- To be an example of a rule or regex.
prefix
verb
- To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
- To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
- To sell.
- To shop in a market; to attend a market.
noun
- A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
- A grocery store
- A group of potential customers for one's product.
- A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
- City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
- A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
- The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
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