Both Uses of
contract
in
Animal Farm
- Napoleon had accepted, through Whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week.
p. 76..2contract = formal agreement (to provide)
- A stump of hay and part of the potato crop were sold off, and the contract for eggs was increased to six hundred a week, so that that year the hens barely hatched enough chicks to keep their numbers at the same level.
p. 114..7 *
Definition:
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(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law