(n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
(n.) To betroth; to affiance.
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(4) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(5) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(6) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(7) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(8) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(9) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(10) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(11) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(12) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(13) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(14) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(15) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(16) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
(17) A23187 had only a transient effect on KCl-contracted coronary arteries.
(18) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
(19) Dopamine at concentrations over 10(-5)M induced contractions of tracheal muscle strips and repeated exposures resulted in desensitization (tachyphylaxis) of the muscle.
(20) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
Subcontract
Definition:
(n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said he was working hard to ensure that the large companies that take on the task of helping the unemployed also subcontract some of this work to smaller, local voluntary firms.
(2) Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools.
(3) An investment corporation could be set up to spend the money, either by building generation capacity directly, or by subcontracting the work to existing operators.
(4) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
(5) He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship.
(6) Employers shouldn’t be misclassifying workers to keep labor costs down and they shouldn’t be hiding behind complex arrangements like franchising and subcontracting to skirt their responsibilities to their workers.
(7) Ed Miliband is said to have "subcontracted" responsibility for HS2 to Balls and moved Maria Eagle, an outspoken supporter of HS2, out of her job as shadow transport secretary, in his recent reshuffle.
(8) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
(9) Think instead of the thousands of workers at the base of football’s financial pyramid, the people in catering, cleaning, security and ground maintenance who are paid the minimum wage and, if their work is subcontracted, perhaps not even that.
(10) In a submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
(11) In an extraordinary submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
(12) The inquiry also heard evidence from three executives from Wilson Security, which is subcontracted by Transfield Services to manage security.
(13) In a letter to Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, the Whitehall cleaners argue that although they are subcontracted through a cleaning company, it is ultimately the responsibility of the government department to ensure a just wage.
(14) Yet the design of the HIP [home insulation program] facilitated installers subcontracting work to other entities or individuals.” Garrett said it eventually “became apparent” to him that the architecture of the scheme was insufficient.
(15) He blames producers who are subcontracting, or buying in chicken from China and then relabelling it as Thai produce before selling it on, just as British factories buy in poultry from the Netherlands and relabel it as British.
(16) Citizens UK welcomes that commitment, and calls on Manchester City to go further, to set an example and commit to ensuring that its subcontracted staff – such as those working for the catering companies which serve up major matchday profits to the football clubs – are also paid a living wage.
(17) I had never imagined that the justice minister, Chris Grayling, would in effect subcontract a fine repayment to a racketeer.
(18) Others will get involved with subcontracting [to them], although risk having their fingers burned by payment by results … there is also a big push to establish consortia and there is a push to establish partnerships with business."
(19) It subcontracts much of its work to a pool of 250 or so academics, businessmen, economists, retired civil servants and journalists.
(20) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.