contract
[NOUN, VERB]
contracts
1. [C 可数名词] 合同
A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
近义词
双语例句
例：The company won a hefty contract for work on Chicago's tallest building.
公司赢得了芝加哥最高建筑的重要施工合同。
例：He was given a seven-year contract with an annual salary of $150,000.
他签了一份为期七年的合同，年薪为15万美元。
例：Have you read the contract?
你看过这份合同了吗？
NOUN. 名词
contract out
1. [PHRASAL 短语] 订立合同把（工作）包出去
If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it.
双语例句
例：Firms can contract out work to one another.
公司可以相互签订承包合同。
例：When the bank contracted out its cleaning, the new company was cheaper.
银行把保洁工作承包出去之后，才发现新的保洁公司报价更便宜。
PHRASAL VERB. 短语动词
under contract
1. 已经与…签订合同
If you are under contract to someone, you have signed a contract agreeing to work for them, and for no one else, during a fixed period of time.
双语例句
例：The director wanted Olivia de Havilland, then under contract to Warner Brothers.
导演想要奥莉维亚·德·哈维兰，但是那时她已经签约华纳兄弟公司。
PHRASE. 习语
contracts , contracting , contracted
1. [T 及物动词] （与某人）签订合同
If you contract with someone to do something, you legally agree to do it for them or for them to do it for you.
双语例句
例：You can contract with us to deliver your cargo.
你们可以和我们签订合同为你们负责运输货物。
2. [I 不及物动词] 缩小 , 缩短 , 使缩小 , 使缩短
When something contracts or when something contracts it, it becomes smaller or shorter.
反义词
双语例句
例：Blood is only expelled from the heart when it contracts.
心脏收缩时，血液才从心脏射出。
例：New research shows that an excess of meat and salt can contract muscles.
新的研究显示，过度的肉类和盐的摄入可能会导致肌肉萎缩。
3. [I 不及物动词] （经济、市场等）萎缩
When something such as an economy or market contracts, it becomes smaller.
双语例句
例：The manufacturing economy contracted in October for the sixth consecutive month.
到10月份，制造业已连续萎缩6个月了。
4. [T 及物动词] 染（重病）
If you contract a serious illness, you become ill with it.
双语例句
例：He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion.
他因一次输血感染了艾滋病。
VERB. 动词
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