All 10 Uses of
contract
in
Dune
- Thufir Hawat, his father's Master of Assassins, had explained it: their mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, had been on Arrakis eighty years, holding the planet in quasi-fief under a CHOAM Company contract to mine the geriatric spice, melange.†
Book 1
- We must not, however, ignore the possibility the Duke has contracted with the Guild to remove him to a place of safety outside the System.†
Book 1
- How soon he must read that form within his mind, that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: "Please list your next of kin."†
Book 1
- It had taken bravery to challenge him in his own ducal castle, especially since they now had Bewt's signature over a contract of allegiance.†
Book 1
- And the room expanded and contracted.†
Book 1 *
- I merely say I will protect our contract with the Guild.†
Book 2
- Out here, woman, we carry no paper for contracts.†
Book 2
- When a man says a thing, that's the contract.†
Book 2
- You're the one's lived with papers and empty contracts and such as—"†
Book 2
- Without knowing why, her whole being trembled at what she had seen — a region where a wind blew and sparks glared, where rings of light expanded and contracted, where rows of tumescent white shapes flowed over and under and around the lights, driven by darkness and a wind out of nowhere.†
Book 3
Definition:
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(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law