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  "code": 200,
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    "type": "wiki",
    "pronunciations": {
      "phonetic": [
        "kənˈtrækt",
        "ˈkɑnˌtrækt"
      ],
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    "meansorg": {
      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).",
        "From Middle English, from Middle French contracter, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”). The verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only \"draw together\"; the sense \"make a contract with\" developed later."
      ],
      "typelist": [
        {
          "name": "Noun",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "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.\nSynonyms: compact, pact\nMarriage is a contract.\nsign a contract\nwrite up a contract\nread a contract\ncountersign a contract\nlegally-binding contract\nunwritten contract"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(law) 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."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(law) The document containing such an agreement."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(law) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.\nThe mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump."
            }
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        {
          "name": "Adjective",
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            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.\n1609,  William Shakespeare,  Sonnet 1:But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.\n1557,  Robert Recorde,  The Whetstone of Witte:But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte."
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "Verb",
          "meanlist": [
            {
              "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.\nThe snail’s body contracted into its shell.\nto contract one’s sphere of action"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.\nThe word “cannot” is often contracted into “can’t”."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To enter into a contract with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.\nto contract for carrying the mail"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To bring on; to incur; to acquire.\nShe contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.\nto contract a debt"
            },
            {
              "mean": "(transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness)."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To betroth; to affiance."
            }
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          "name": "명사",
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        "(part of legal studies): contract law"
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