Alliance vs. Contract

Alliance vs. Contract — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Alliance and Contract

Alliancenoun

(uncountable) The state of being allied.

matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state, or between two countries

Contractnoun

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.

Marriage is a contract.

Alliancenoun

(countable) The act of allying or uniting.

Contractnoun

(legal) 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.

Alliancenoun

(countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league.

Contractnoun

(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

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Alliancenoun

(countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.

Contractnoun

(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.

Alliancenoun

(with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.

Contractnoun

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

Allianceverb

(obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

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Alliancenoun

the state of being allied or confederated

Contractadjective

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

Alliancenoun

a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest;

the shifting alliances within a large familytheir friendship constitutes a powerful bond between them

Contractverb

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

The snail's body contracted into its shell.to contract one's sphere of action

Alliancenoun

an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

Contractverb

(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".

Alliancenoun

a formal agreement establishing an association or alliance between nations or other groups to achieve a particular aim

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en

Alliancenoun

the act of forming an alliance or confederation

Contractverb

(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

Contractverb

(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

to contract for carrying the mail

Contractverb

(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.to contract a debt

Contractverb

(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).

Contractverb

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Contractverb

To betroth; to affiance.

Contractnoun

a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law

Contractnoun

(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

Contractnoun

a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid

Contractverb

enter into a contractual arrangement

Contractverb

engage by written agreement;

They signed two new pitchers for the next season

Contractverb

squeeze or press together;

she compressed her lipsthe spasm contracted the muscle

Contractverb

become smaller or draw together;

The fabric shrankThe balloon shrank

Contractverb

be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

He got AIDSShe came down with pneumoniaShe took a chill

Contractverb

make smaller;

The heat contracted the woollen garment

Contractverb

compress or concentrate;

Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan

Contractverb

make or become more narrow or restricted;

The selection was narrowedThe road narrowed

Contractverb

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

The manuscript must be shortened