Contractual

Definition

contract /'kɒntrækt/ n ~ (with sb) (for sth/to do sth) သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္။ You shouldn't enter into/make a contract until you have studied its provisions carefully. ❍ We have a contract with the government for the supply of vehicles/to supply vehicles. ❍ When the legal formalities have been settled, the buyer and seller of a house can exchange contracts (ie to complete their agreement legally). ❍ He has agreed salary terms and is ready to sign a new contract (ie of employment). ❍ I'm not a permanent employee; I'm working here on a fixed-term contract. ❍ the contract price/date (ie the price/date agreed to) ❍ a contract worker (ie one employed on a contract). /kǝn'trækt/ v ၁။ (လုပ္ငန္းဆိုင္ရာ) သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ဆို သည္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္ဆြဲ သည္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္ခ်သည္။ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္ စာခ်ဳပ္ျဖင့္ ငွားရမ္းသည္။ They had contracted with a local firm for the supply of fuel (ie agreed to buy fuel from it). ❍ They were contracted to do the job. ❍ He is contracted to Everton for the next two seasons. ❍ The company had contracted to do the repairs by the end of the month. ၂။ ~ sth (with sb) ( fml ) (အိမ္ေထာင္ေရး၊ မဟာမိတ္ျပဳေရး စသည့္ ဆက္ဆံမႈဆိုင္ရာ) သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုသည္။ She had contracted a most unsuitable marriage. ❍ hoping to contract an alliance with a neighbouring state. ၃။ ( fml ) (နာဖ်ားေရာဂါ)ကူးစက္ရရိွသည္။ He contracted measles/AIDS. ၄။ ( fml ) မေကာင္းေသာ တာဝန္ဝတၱရား၊ ေႂကြးၿမီ၊ အက်င့္စ႐ိုက္ စသည္ ရိွသည္။ debts/obligations/bad habits contracted in his youth. ၅။ (က) က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းလာသည္။ ေသးငယ္လာသည္။ contracting health service budgets ❍ Business has contracted a lot recently. (ခ) က်ဥ္းသည္။ က်ံဳ႕သည္။ ခ်ံဳ႕သည္။ Metals contract as they get cooler. ❍ Try not to contract your leg muscles. ❍ The tunnel contracts to a narrow passageway. Compare EXPAND (ဂ) ~ sth (to sth) ( grammar ) (esp passive) စာလံုး၊ စကားလံုး ခ်ံဳ႕သည္။ contracted forms ❍ ‘He will’ is often contracted to ‘He'll’. ❏ be under contract (to sb) [ IDM ] စာခ်ဳပ္ျဖင့္ ငွားရမ္း ထားသည္။ a pop group that is under contract to one of the big record companies. ❏ contraction /kǝn'trækʃn/ n ၁။ [U] က်ဥ္းျခင္း။ က်ံဳ႕ျခင္း။ ခ်ံဳ႕ျခင္း။ more signs of contraction in the service industries ❍ the contraction of a muscle. ၂။ [C] ( medical ) မီးဖြားရန္ဝမ္းနာျခင္း။ ကမၼဇေလလႈပ္ျခင္း။ ၃။ [C] အတိုခ်ံဳ႕ စကားလံုး။ ‘Can't’ is a contraction of ‘cannot’. ❏ contractor /kǝn'træktǝ(r)/ n ကန္ထ႐ိုက္တာ။ a building contractor ❍ a firm of defence contractors (ie who make weapons, etc) ❍ Who were the contractors on/for the new motorway? (ie Who built it?) ❏ contract out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) (စာခ်ဳပ္တစ္ရပ္မွ) ႏုတ္ထြက္သည္။ (စာခ်ဳပ္တစ္ရပ္တြင္)မပါဝင္။ Few employees have so far contracted out of the pension scheme. ❏ contract sth out (to sb) [ PHRV ] ကိုယ္ပိုင္မလုပ္ဘဲ ကန္ထ႐ိုက္ျဖင့္ လက္လႊဲ လုပ္ခိုင္းသည္။ Catering services were contracted out. ❏ contractual /kǝn'træktʃuǝl/ adj စာခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ။ စာခ်ဳပ္၌ပါေသာ။ contractual liability/obligations.

Examples

1. After six months she was offered a contract of employment.
2. The firm has won a £5 million contract to build ships for the navy.
3. [contract with] : Our contract with the BBC expires next year.
4. [be on a contract] : Are you on a permanent or a fixed-term contract?
5. [be under (a) contract to someone/something] : She is still under contract to Microsoft.
6. [under a contract] : Under his contract he is not allowed to work for any other publisher.
7. [be in breach of contract] : The court found that the company was in breach of contract.
8. [sign a contract] : He has signed a six-year contract with Manchester United.
9. [enter into a contract] : In order for it to be valid
10. both parties have to enter into the contract voluntarily.
11. [terminate a contract] : The employer can terminate the contract of employment with immediate effect.
12. [subject to contract] : The house has been sold subject to contract.
13. [award someone a contract] : The contract for building the hospital has been awarded to a Dutch company.
14. A contract killer/killing
15. [take out a contract on someone] : She was accused of taking out a contract on her own husband.