one-year contract

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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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(Definition ofcontractfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The assumption that the contract is aone-yearcontractis made just for convenience without changing the qualitative properties of the model.
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Those firms can guarantee their workers five years' employment, but a non-ring firm in a development area is allowed only aone-yearcontract.
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Letting the pits close now in a dispute over aone-yearcontractwith the electricity companies would be short-termism on a criminal scale.
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He has aone-yearcontract, and after that, who knows?
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There was this inordinately high cost, with overheads and on-costs, for the sake of aone-yearcontract, whereas firms in the monopoly enjoy the same contract for five years.
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However, a proneness to injury cost him nearly two years of football, and he left the club after being offered only aone-yearcontract.
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He was initially signed on aone-yearcontract.
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He was offered a newone-yearcontractby the club at the end of the season, which he quickly signed.
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He signed aone-yearcontractwith the province in 2013.
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A spokesperson for the resort stated that the prize was aone-yearcontract.
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He signed a performance-basedone-yearcontract, with an option for one more year, and stated that he had returned to win the league.
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He signed aone-yearcontractlater that week after impressing in his trial period.
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The following day he signed aone-yearcontractwith the option for a further 12 months.
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He signed a new,one-yearcontract, and made the team out of camp.
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After a month with the club, he was rewarded for a string of good performances by being given aone-yearcontract.
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The worker would have to agree to an unbreakableone-yearcontract.
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Boras eventually negotiated a record-breaking $14.75 million contract for the star pitcher, at the time the largestone-yearcontractin baseball history.
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The winner signs aone-yearcontractwith the pageant organiser to become the spokesperson for their various charities.
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He signed a newone-yearcontractahead of the 201314 season.
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