Contract vs. Reduce

Contract and Reduce Definitions
Contract
An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.
Reduce
To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.
Contract
The writing or document containing such an agreement.
Reduce
To gain control of; subject or conquer
"a design to reduce them under absolute despotism" (Declaration of Independence).
Contract
The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.
Reduce
To subject to destruction
Enemy bombers reduced the city to rubble.
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Contract
Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.
Reduce
To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness
Disease that reduced the patient to emaciation.
Teasing that reduced the child to tears.
Contract
The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.
Reduce
To compel to desperate acts
The Depression reduced many to begging on street corners.
Contract
The number of tricks thus bid.
Reduce
To lower in rank or grade; demote.
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Contract
Contract bridge.
Reduce
To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
Contract
A paid assignment to murder someone
Put out a contract on the mobster's life.
Reduce
To lower the price of
The store has drastically reduced winter coats.
Contract
To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement
Contract a marriage.
Reduce
To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.
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Contract
To acquire or incur
Contract obligations.
Contract a serious illness.
Reduce
To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify
Reduced her ideas to a collection of maxims.
Contract
To reduce in size by drawing together; shrink.
Reduce
To turn into powder; pulverize.
Contract
To pull together; wrinkle.
Reduce
To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.
Contract
(Grammar) To shorten (a word or words) by omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds, as do not to don't.
Reduce
To remove oxygen from (a compound).
Contract
To enter into or make an agreement
Contract for garbage collection.
Reduce
To add hydrogen to (a compound).
Contract
To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together
The pupils of the patient's eyes contracted.
Reduce
To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.
Contract
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.
Sign a contract
Write up a contract
Read a contract
Countersign a contract
Legally-binding contract
Unwritten contract
Reduce
(Mathematics) To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.
Contract
(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.
Reduce
(Medicine) To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.
Contract
(legal) The document containing such an agreement.
Reduce
(Linguistics) To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.
Contract
(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
Reduce
To become diminished.
Contract
(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.
Reduce
To lose weight, as by dieting.
Contract
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
Reduce
(Biology) To undergo meiosis.
Contract
(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Reduce
(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
To reduce weight, speed, heat, expenses, price, personnel etc.
Contract
(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
Reduce
(intransitive) To lose weight.
Contract
(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
Reduce
(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
To reduce a sergeant to the ranks
Contract
(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”.
Reduce
(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To reduce a province or a fort
Contract
(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en
Reduce
(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
To reduce a city to ashes
Contract
(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
Reduce
To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
Contract
(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To contract for carrying the mail
Reduce
To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
Formaldehyde can be reduced to form methanol.
Contract
(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
To contract a debt
Reduce
To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
Contract
(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
Reduce
To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
Contract
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Reduce
To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
Contract
To betroth; to affiance.
Reduce
To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
Contract
To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
Reduce
To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
It is important that all business contracts be reduced to writing.
Contract
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
Reduce
To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
Contract
To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Each from each contract new strength and light.
Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high station.
Reduce
To reform a line or column from (a square).
Contract
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen.
Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law.
Reduce
To strike off the payroll.
Contract
To betroth; to affiance.
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.
Reduce
To annul by legal means.
Contract
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Reduce
To translate (a book, document, etc.).
A book reduced into English
Contract
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.
Years contracting to a moment.
Reduce
To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
And to his brother's house reduced his wife.
The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us.
Contract
To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Reduce
To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it.
Having reducedTheir foe to misery beneath their fears.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced.
Contract
Contracted; as, a contract verb.
Reduce
To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Contract
Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Reduce
To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
It were but rightAnd equal to reduce me to my dust.
Contract
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.
Reduce
To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
Contract
A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Reduce
To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
Contract
The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
This is the the night of the contract.
Reduce
To add an electron to an atom or ion.
Contract
A binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
Reduce
To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Contract
(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
Reduce
Cut down on; make a reduction in;
Reduce your daily fat intake
The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Contract
A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
Reduce
Make less complex;
Reduce a problem to a single question
Contract
Enter into a contractual arrangement
Reduce
Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;
He reduced the population to slavery
Contract
Engage by written agreement;
They signed two new pitchers for the next season
Reduce
Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
Contract
Squeeze or press together;
She compressed her lips
The spasm contracted the muscle
Reduce
Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;
She reduced her niece to a servant
Contract
Become smaller or draw together;
The fabric shrank
The balloon shrank
Reduce
Be the essential element;
The proposal boils down to a compromise
Contract
Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;
He got AIDS
She came down with pneumonia
She took a chill
Reduce
Reduce in size; reduce physically;
Hot water will shrink the sweater
Can you shrink this image?
Contract
Make smaller;
The heat contracted the woollen garment
Reduce
Lessen and make more modest;
Reduce one's standard of living
Contract
Compress or concentrate;
Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan
Reduce
Make smaller;
Reduce an image
Contract
Make or become more narrow or restricted;
The selection was narrowed
The road narrowed
Reduce
To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
Contract
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
The manuscript must be shortened
Reduce
Narrow or limit;
Reduce the influx of foreigners
Reduce
Put down by force or intimidation;
The government quashes any attempt of an uprising
China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently
The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Reduce
Undergo meiosis;
The cells reduce
Reduce
Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
Reduce
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;
The manuscript must be shortened
Reduce
Be cooked until very little liquid is left;
The sauce should reduce to one cup
Reduce
Cook until very little liquid is left;
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time
Reduce
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;
Cut bourbon
Reduce
Take off weight