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Contractual
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- 1 Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract. not-comparable
"contractual rights, contractual obligations"
- 1 relating to or part of a binding legal agreement wordnet
- 1 A contractualized employee; One who is hired as a temporary worker, especially one who is hired for a single project.
"[…] Labor Day is just around the corner, hence, it is timely to examine the current and hot issues affecting the workers’ sector. One such issue concerns the matter of endos, contractuals and contractualized employees. / Endos, contractuals and contractualized employees do not enjoy full security of tenure rights as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Labor Code."
- 2 A charge for a service that is applied through a contract with another provider.
"Additionally, the CALM general ledger has no account comparable to the contra ( offset ) account maintained by private sector medical centers for contractuals and discounts."
- 3 A contract specifying details of the relationship with another country or body
"If the Declaration continues to be deferred for the contractuals, it is bound to seem old and stale and insufficient when it finally comes, while if it were issued now, particularly if issued freely, it might have some significance as a concession, or gesture, made by the Three Powers to meet the wishes of Berliners."
Etymology
Morphologically contract + -ual, from Latin contractus + -al.
Morphologically contract + -ual, from Latin contractus + -al.
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