Word Meanings - PACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. Bacon. The engagement and pact of society whish goes by the name of the constitution. Burke. (more info) contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf. pangere to fasten,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PACT)

• t Contract
• Covenant
• agreement
• compact
• bond
• pact
• stipulation
• bargain

Related words: (words related to PACT)

• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• STIPULATION
  A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain. Bouvier. Wharton. Syn. -- Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant. (more info) 1. The act of stipulating; a contracting or
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• COMPACTEDLY
  In a compact manner.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• BARGAIN
  prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• COMPACTNESS
  The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
• COMPACTION
  The act of making compact, or the state of being compact. Bacon.
• COMPACTER
  One who makes a compact.
• COMPACTEDNESS
  A state of being compact.
• CONTRACTILITY
  The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of
• CONTRACTIBILITY
  Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.
• COMPACTED
  Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• AGREEMENT
  Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
• COMPACTLY
  In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• DISCOVENANT
  To dissolve covenant with.
• ASTIPULATION
  Stipulation; agreement. Bp. Hall.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• INCOMPACT; INCOMPACTED
  Not compact; not having the parts firmly united; not solid; incoherent; loose; discrete. Boyle.
• SUBCONTRACTED
  1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak.