Contract
Contract verb - To become affected with (a disease or disorder).
Project
Project verb - To extend outward beyond a usual point.
Usage example: some boulders projected dangerously out above the trail
How words are described
| old | old contract | old project |
| special | special contract | special project |
| particular | particular contract | particular project |
| similar | similar contract | similar project |
| Other adjectives: separate, current, original, single, actual, entire, massive, large, big, huge, illegal, important, personal, new, major, final, military, next, last, previous, long-term. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Synopsis: Carlos, still stuck in the desert, gets offered a way out by Strex — just sign this contract and get to work on a project that threatens all of Night Vale.
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The RoboCop project was nothing more than a publicity stunt done by Sellars to help OmniCorp win some political battles and get a domestic robotics drone contract.
Source: Film / RoboCop (2014) -
Three companies competed for the contract: SpaceX (already handling cargo runs as well) with a new, sleek Dragon spacecraft, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser mini-shuttle, and the CST-100, a Boeing-led project with a capsule similar in appearance to the old Apollo and Orion spacecraft.
Source: Useful Notes / NASA
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