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Contract in   /kˈɑntrˌækt ɪn/   Listen
Contract in

verb
1.
Consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use.






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"Contract in" Quotes from Famous Books



... "It's a pure, bright, A number 1 paper; the St. Jo Sunday Herald. The idea of the series was quite my own; I interviewed the editor, put it to him straight; the freshness of the idea took him, and I walked out of that office with the contract in my pocket, and did my first Paris letter that evening in Saint Jo. The editor did no more than glance his eye down the headlines. 'You're the ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... three repetitions of scraping and repainting before the evil is overcome. Now, inasmuch as soft drying paint is unfit to answer the purpose, it is equally as bad when paint too hard or brittle has been used, that does not expand and contract in harmony with the painted article, causing the paint to crack and peel off, which is always the case when either oil or varnish has been too sparingly and turpentine too freely used. Intense cold favors the action, when all paints become very brittle, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Contract in" :   go for, consent, contract out, accept



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