contract provision

collocation in English

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contract
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.trækt/us
/ˈkɑːn.trækt/
a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the ...
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provision
noun
uk
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/us
/prəˈvɪʒ.ən/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofcontractandprovisionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontract provision

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An employer might ignore contract provisions, especially regarding working hours, working days, and end-of-contract payments.
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Bannerman also refused to do this, standing behind contract provisions that gave him the power over program content.
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Though the strikes did not achieve contract provisions regarding wages, the parties were nonetheless able to reach agreement on contracts.
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Contract provisions will attempt to exclude the possibility of adverse selection.
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Yet, if that is so, it would prevent people giving evidence of past transactions in all sorts of cases not covered by thiscontractprovision.
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What will the position be in relation to those understandings and arrangements which fall short of a formalcontractprovision?
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But if you insert the word "duties" in subsection (4), which is a money andcontractprovision, it surely will be very difficult to know what the duties will be.
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Thecontractprovisionmust be approved by shareholders.
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Licensed cultivators had good reason to believe that as long as they followed contract provisions, they could farm in the forests indefinitely.
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In both cases, their organizational culture sustained solidarity, gave members the self-confidence to enforce contract provisions and work rules, and created a pride in their occupation as a craft.
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The area of concern is the certificated contract provisions.
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Payments are made in accordance with stipulated contract provisions or where no specific provisions exist, within 30 days of the presentation of a valid invoice.
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Apart from the fact that the contract provisions for some of these aircraft have already been negotiated, such a provision would be quite impracticable.
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If they do, there should be no doubt that they are entitled to fair contract provisions.
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They are wary of taking on extra staff, and the temporary contract provisions would tip the balance towards employing rather than not employing.
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Would he still be entitled to these fair contract provisions or would he face a legal battle to establish that his work should have been specified from the outset?
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In certain cases, employers included contract provisions requiring employees to patronize the company stores.
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Standard form contracts contain boilerplate, which is a set of one size fits all contract provisions.
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