Contract
Contract verb - To become affected with (a disease or disorder).
Owe and contract are semantically related. in come to terms topic. In some cases you can use "Owe" instead a verb "Contract".
Owe
Mutual synonyms
Common collocations
| name | contract name | owe name |
Both words in one sentence
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We owe the record company three more songs according to our contract, so let's just can this turd, and we can forget about it forev-
Source: Album Filler -
And all of the above owe The Federation money, and their "Contract Enforcement Division" is coming to collect.
Source: Hopeless War -
Magically Binding Contract: To the point that one needs to be careful when saying "thank you" to anybody in the Nevernever, since those words basically mean "I owe you one." Faeries will take Meghan at her word for that, and try to call in the debt later.
Source: Literature / The Iron King
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