firm contract
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffirmandcontract
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firm
adjective
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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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 offirmandcontractfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The remainder is, naturally, subject to afirmcontract.
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The easiest way is to make afirmcontractfor price and date.
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On inquiry by the council it was found that afirmcontractto purchase had already been entered into.
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Yet, without a detailed survey, neither the local authorities nor the builders could have been expected to enter into afirmcontract.
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I would like to see the matter settled with afirmcontract.
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To be fair, there was not afirmcontractarranged for the follow-on order.
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I do not know whether that constitutes part of thefirmcontract.
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How can a number of shareholders holding shares in onefirmcontractin or contract out of an employers' trade union?
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I am sure he has not the face to say that to negotiate means to sign afirmcontractwhich will be irrevocable.
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Various firms have been asked to tender, but nofirmcontracthas yet been entered into.
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We can none of us water down our obligations, and no one can just pull out; it is afirmcontract.
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This is a contract which has been made for this craft, and it is afirmcontract.
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After all, we have only a memorandum of understanding; we do not even have afirmcontract.
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There would then be a requirement for afirmcontractfor the sale and purchase within four weeks, in the absence of withdrawal for good reasons.
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In fact, with afirmcontractand reasonable borrowing facilities it should be possible for a number of these services to be undertaken without much difficulty.
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I am sure that that is contrary to the interests of the building industry as a whole, and we must get back to afirmcontractbasis for housing.
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Is there afirmcontract?
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From then on, they refused to fly anywhere unless they had afirmcontractto sell their aircraft.
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We had to honour the agreement, of course, but nevertheless we succeeded in limiting imports of onions to firm contracts.
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