Contract vs. Reduce

An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law.

To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish.

The writing or document containing such an agreement.

To gain control of; subject or conquer

The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.

To subject to destruction

Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.

To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness

The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.

To compel to desperate acts

The number of tricks thus bid.

To lower in rank or grade; demote.

Contract bridge.

To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.

A paid assignment to murder someone

To lower the price of

To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement

To decrease the viscosity of (paint, for example), as by adding a solvent.

To acquire or incur

To put in a simpler or more systematic form; simplify or codify

To reduce in size by drawing together; shrink.

To turn into powder; pulverize.

To pull together; wrinkle.

To decrease the valence of (an atom) by adding electrons.

(Grammar) To shorten (a word or words) by omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds, as do not to don't.

To remove oxygen from (a compound).

To enter into or make an agreement

To add hydrogen to (a compound).

To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together

To change to a metallic state by removing nonmetallic constituents; smelt.

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.

(Mathematics) To simplify the form of (an expression, such as a fraction) without changing the value.

(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.

(Medicine) To restore (a fractured or displaced body part) to a normal condition or position.

(legal) The document containing such an agreement.

(Linguistics) To pronounce (a stressed vowel) as the unstressed version of that vowel or as schwa.

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

To become diminished.

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

To lose weight, as by dieting.

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

(Biology) To undergo meiosis.

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.

(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

(intransitive) To lose weight.

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

(transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.

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

(transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.

(transitive) To enter into a contract with. en

(transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.

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

To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.

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

To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.

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

To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.

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

To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.

To betroth; to affiance.

To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.

To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)

To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.

To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

To reform a line or column from (a square).

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

To strike off the payroll.

To betroth; to affiance.

To annul by legal means.

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

To translate (a book, document, etc.).

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.

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

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.

Contracted; as, a contract verb.

To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.

Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

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.

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.

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.

A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

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.

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

To add an electron to an atom or ion.

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

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

Cut down on; make a reduction in;

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

Make less complex;

Enter into a contractual arrangement

Bring to humbler or weaker state or condition;

Engage by written agreement;

Simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another

Squeeze or press together;

Lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation;

Become smaller or draw together;

Be the essential element;

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

Reduce in size; reduce physically;

Make smaller;

Lessen and make more modest;

Compress or concentrate;

Make smaller;

Make or become more narrow or restricted;

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

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Narrow or limit;

Put down by force or intimidation;

Undergo meiosis;

Reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site

Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Be cooked until very little liquid is left;

Cook until very little liquid is left;

Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;

Take off weight