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contract
A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to tran ...
is a legally binding agreement between at least two parties.
Contract may also refer to:
Film and television
Film
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''The Contract'' (1971 film), an Israeli comedy film
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''The Contract'' (1972 film) or ''Caliber 9'', an Italian crime film
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''The Contract'' (1978 film), a Hong Kong comedy film
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''Contract'' (1985 film), a Soviet animated film based on a story by Robert Silverberg
*''The Contract'', a 1998 film featuring
Billy Dee Williams
William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor. He appeared as Lando Calrissian in the ''Star Wars'' franchise, first in the early 1980s for ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), and thirt ...
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''The Contract'' (2006 film), a German-American action thriller film
*''The Contract'', also known as ''
Lease Wife
''Lease Wife'' () is a 2006 drama film directed by Lu Xuechang, and is the story of a man who pays a prostitute to pretend to be his wife when he goes back to his village to visit his family. It is also known as ''The Contract''.
''Lease Wife'' ...
'', a 2006 Chinese drama film directed by Lu Xuechang
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''Contract'' (2008 film), a Bollywood film by Ram Gopal Varma
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''Contract'' (2012 film), a Ghanaian film directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso
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''The Contract'' (2016 film), a British crime film
Television
*''The Contract'', a 1988 British television series; see
1988 in British television#ITV
*''Contract'', a 2021 Bangladeshi
ZEE5 original web series
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"Contract" (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), an episode
Music
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''The Contract'', an EP by Crime in Stereo, 2005
*"Contract", a song by Gang of Four from ''
Entertainment!
''Entertainment!'' is the debut album by English post-punk band Gang of Four. It was released in September 1979 through EMI Records internationally and Warner Bros. Records in North America. Stylistically, it draws heavily on punk rock but also ...
'', 1979
*"The Contract", a song by Bad News from ''
Bad News'', 2004 re-release
*''GTA Online: The Contract'', an EP by
Dr. Dre
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, 2022
Other uses
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Contract (Catholic canon law)
*''The Contract'', a 1980 novel by
Gerald Seymour
Gerald Seymour (born 25 November 1941 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British writer of crime and espionage novels.
Early life
Gerald Seymour was born to William Kean Seymour and his second wife, Rosalind Wade.ASL Airlines Ireland
ASL Airlines Ireland (ASLI), formerly Air Contractors, is a cargo airline with an extensive operations network. It operates scheduled freight services throughout Europe on behalf of major parcel integrators such as Amazon, FedEx Feeder and DHL ...
, formerly Air Contractors, callsign CONTRACT
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Hitman: Contracts'', the third game in the ''Hitman'' video game series
See also
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Contract bridge
Contract bridge, or simply bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard 52-card deck. In its basic format, it is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table. Millions o ...
, a trick-taking card game
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Contract farming
Contract farming involves agricultural production being carried out on the basis of an agreement between the buyer and farm producers. Sometimes it involves the buyer specifying the quality required and the price, with the farmer agreeing to deliv ...
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Contract grading
Contract grading is a form of grading which results from cooperation between an instructor and their student(s), and entails completion of a contracted number of assignments of specified quality that correspond to specific letter grades. These con ...
, a hands-on, student-involved form of grading in schools
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Contract killing
Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...
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Contract theory
From a legal point of view, a contract is an institutional arrangement for the way in which resources flow, which defines the various relationships between the parties to a transaction or limits the rights and obligations of the parties.
From an ...
, in economics
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Contraction (disambiguation)
Contraction may refer to:
Linguistics
* Contraction (grammar), a shortened word
* Poetic contraction, omission of letters for poetic reasons
* Elision, omission of sounds
** Syncope (phonology), omission of sounds in a word
* Synalepha, merged ...
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Contractor (disambiguation)
A contractor is a person or company that performs work on a contract basis. The term may refer to:
Business roles
* Defense contractor, arms industry which provides weapons or military goods to a government
* General contractor, an individual o ...
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Design by contract, in computer programming, the notion of contracts between modules
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Social contract
In moral and political philosophy
Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships betw ...
, a philosophical concept of how individuals connect with society
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Tensor contraction
In multilinear algebra, a tensor contraction is an operation on a tensor that arises from the natural pairing of a finite-dimensional vector space and its dual. In components, it is expressed as a sum of products of scalar components of the tenso ...
, in mathematics and physics, an operation on tensors
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