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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

contrato temporal

Pronunciation / Transliteration: konˈtrato tem.poˈɾal

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Short-term contract/ˌʃɔːt.tɜːm ˈkɒn.trækt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Muchos jóvenes empiezan su carrera con un contrato temporal."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An employment agreement or business pact that is binding for a limited, specified duration, typically lasting from a few weeks to less than a couple of years.

    "She accepted a short-term contract to help launch the new marketing campaign before returning to freelancing."
  2. 2

    A legally binding accord covering services or supply delivery restricted to a brief operational timeframe.

    "The tech startup secured a short-term contract with the municipal government to upgrade their website."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'short-term' (derived from 'short', Old English sceort, and 'term', from Latin terminus meaning boundary or period) with 'contract' (from Latin contractus, past participle of contrahere, meaning to draw together or enter into an agreement). It emerged in modern labor economics and legal terminology to denote employment agreements limited to a brief, specified duration.

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