Clues for the word "CONTRACT"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 58 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on July 07, 2026.
Definition of contract
- n. - To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
- n. - To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- n. - To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- n. - To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- n. - To betroth; to affiance.
- n. - To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- v. i. - To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
- v. i. - To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
- a. - Contracted; as, a contract verb.
- a. - Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- n. - The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
- n. - A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
- n. - The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Referring Clues
- Term paper?
- Written agreement
- Become smaller
- Agreement between two parties
- Signed written agreement
- Ballplayer's agreement
- Signed agreement
- Agreement to read pamphlet
- Shrink from engagement
- Bargain
- Shorten
- Put right in to touch, shrink from
- Shorten "enter into an agreement"
- Document that has to do with land
- Agreement
- Become smaller and compact
- Undertake to reduce?
- Shrink from making a commitment
- Close agreement
- Agree - reduce
- Narrow agreement
- Agree to study pamphlet
- Agreement - lessen
- Narrow kind of bridge
- Agreement with shrink
- Pick up a bargain
- Marriage means someone dying for money
- Go down with Bond
- Go down with Tory leaflet
- Abridge legal document
- Get smaller
- Get smaller settlement
- Shrink from touch 9 25
- 42 Down, e.g.
- Bond is to become smaller
- Term paper?
- Undertake not to expand?
- Undertake to do it and you'll catch it!
- Shrink from the act of touching physically, right through
- Shrink
- Covenant
- Tighten up
- Undertake to reduce?
- Written agreement with terms
- Legal agreement
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - July 07, 2026
- Daily Quick - April 27, 2026
- New York Times - February 06, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2025
- LA Times - July 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 20, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 08, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 18, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 02, 2024
- USA Today - May 28, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 26, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 05, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 06, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - April 18, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2022
- Evening Standard Quick - November 01, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - October 20, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 05, 2022
- Guardian Quiptic - December 25, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 06, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - December 05, 2017
- USA Today - November 24, 2017
- Universal - October 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 06, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 27, 2017
- And in 28 more crossword puzzles...