The difference between Contract and Increase

When used as nouns, contract means 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, whereas increase means an amount by which a quantity is increased.

When used as verbs, contract means to draw together or nearer, whereas increase means (of a quantity, etc.) to become larger or greater.

Contract is also adjective with the meaning: contracted.

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  1. Contract as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "Marriage is a contract."

  2. Contract as a noun (legal):

    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.

  3. Contract as a noun (legal):

    A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

  4. Contract as a noun (informal):

    An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

    Examples:

    "The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."

  5. Contract as a noun (bridge):

    The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

  1. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

    Examples:

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  2. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not abstract; concrete.

  1. Contract as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

    Examples:

    "The snail's body contracted into its shell."

    "to contract one's sphere of action"

  2. Contract as a verb (grammar):

    To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

    Examples:

    "The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't"."

  3. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into a contract with.

  4. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

  5. Contract as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

    Examples:

    "to contract for carrying the mail"

  6. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

    Examples:

    "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."

    "to contract a debt"

  7. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To gain or acquire (an illness).

  8. Contract as a verb:

    To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

  9. Contract as a verb:

    To betroth; to affiance.

  1. Increase as a verb (intransitive):

    (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater.

    Examples:

    "His rage only increased when I told him of the lost money."

  2. Increase as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.

  3. Increase as a verb:

    To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

  4. Increase as a verb (astronomy, intransitive):

    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

    Examples:

    "The Moon increases."

  1. Increase as a noun:

    An amount by which a quantity is increased.

  2. Increase as a noun:

    For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

  3. Increase as a noun (knitting):

    The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

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