breach of contract | a breach of a legal duty, failure to do something that is required in a contract |
contract killing | a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer |
contract contract bridge | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
leaf miner leaf-miner | any of various small moths or dipterous flies whose larvae burrow into and feed on leaf tissue especially of the family Gracilariidae |
worker | sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae |
worker bee | sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive |
birch leaf miner Fenusa pusilla | small black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States, larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation |
a bassarisk cacomistle cacomixle coon cat raccoon fox ringtail ring-tailed cat civet cat miner's cat Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
contract law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts |
futures contract | an agreement to buy or sell a specific amount of a commodity or financial instrument at a particular price on a stipulated future date, the contract can be sold before the settlement date |
contract | a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law |
adhesion contract contract of adhesion | a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts), implies inequality in bargaining power |
aleatory contract | a contract whose performance by one party depends on the occurrence of an uncertain contingent event (but if it is contingent on the outcome of a wager it is not enforceable) |
bilateral contract | a contract involving mutual promises (each party is both promisor and promisee) |
conditional contract | a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations |
cost-plus contract | a contract in which the contractor is paid his total cost plus a stated percentage of profit |
gambling contract | a contract whose performance by one party is contingent on the outcome of a bet, unenforceable by statute in most jurisdictions |
marriage contract marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
output contract | a contract in which you promise to deliver your entire output to the other party who promises to accept it |
purchase contract purchase agreement | a contract stating the terms of a purchase |
quasi contract | a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent |
requirements contract | a contract in which you agree to purchase all your requirements of a particular sort from one party |
sealed instrument contract under seal special contract | a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached |
service contract | a contract for maintenance services |
severable contract | a contract which, in the event of a breach by one of the parties, can be considered as several independent agreements expressed in a single instrument |
unilateral contract | a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise) |
labor contract labor agreement collective agreement | contract between labor and management governing wages and benefits and working conditions |
yellow-dog contract | a labor contract (now illegal) whereby the employee agrees not to join a trade union |
employment contract employment agreement | contract between employer and employee |
sale in gross contract of hazard | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
contract declaration | (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make |
oral contract | an agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigation |
contract offer | offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate |
Kurdistan Workers Party Kurdistan Labor Pary Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan PPK | a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
United Mine Workers of America United Mine Workers | an industrial union of mine workers in North America |
National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazi Party | the political party founded in Germany in and brought to power by Hitler in |
Industrial Workers of the World IWW I.W.W. | a former international labor union and radical labor movement in the United States, founded in Chicago inand dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism, its membership declined after World War I |
worker | a person who works at a specific occupation, he is a good worker |
actor doer worker | a person who acts and gets things done, he's a principal actor in this affair, when you want something done get a doer, he's a miracle worker |
almoner medical social worker | an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients |
brainworker brain-worker | someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems |
civil rights leader civil rights worker civil rights activist | a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups |
coal miner collier pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
colleague co-worker fellow worker workfellow | an associate that one works with |
construction worker hard hat | a worker skilled in building offices or dwellings etc. |
farmhand fieldhand field hand farm worker | a hired hand on a farm |
garmentmaker garment-worker garment worker | a person who makes garments |
gold miner gold digger gold panner | a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field |
goldsmith goldworker gold-worker | an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold |
guest worker guestworker | a person with temporary permission to work in another country, a Moroccan guestworker in Canada was accused of aiding terrorists |