contractually

contractual | Business English

contractual
adjective
 LAWuk /kənˈtræktʃuəl/us
relating to a contract or included in a written contract:
contractual disputes/problemsContractual disputes can take many years to settle.
contractual obligations/commitments/dutiesThe company failed to meet its contractual obligations.
contractual entitlement/rightAn employee has a contractual right to be paid.
A new chief executive has been appointed but his name was not given yesterday for contractual reasons.
a contractual agreement
contractual arrangements

Examples of contractual

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Besides, contractual arrangements can be difficult to monitor to detect infringements and costly to enforce.
Thus, a contractual duty obligates the healthcare organization to retain qualified professional personnel.
Economists, in modelling contractual terms, make three key distinctions relevant to this analysis.
However, it is not necessary for purchases to be large-scale in order to be subject to contractual uncertainty.
Here the workers of the settlement colonies appear to have enjoyed the best of both contractual worlds.
Actions are performed by agents in order to discharge contractual obligations, and change their state.
This situation cannot arise in competitive equilibrium because the intermediary is unable to fulfill all contractual obligations.
Whenever people sold, bought, or rented (as tenant farmers) pieces of land, contractual documents were drawn up.
When the mills failed to honour their contractual obligations with regard to water, planters resorted to litigation.
Relevant absorption costs require the assistance of vendors within the context of longterm contractual relations.
Passengers were in contractual privity with railroad companies as common carriers, and therefore were already covered by a set of duties of care.
We should not obscure the contractual dimension of even the best physician - patient interactions, nor should we overlook the limitations of human capacities for caring.
This will in turn reflect personal characteristics as well as the technological and contractual features underlying financial instruments.
The aim of the hostage is to provide a different way of creating contractual balance and thus the right incentive structure for an effective relationship.
These reforms created purchasers and providers of health care, linked by contractual financial arrangements.
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