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contractual adjective

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Definition

relating to or contained within a contract (= legal agreement)
contractual conditions/terms
Are you under a contractual obligation to any other company?

contractually adverb

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They are contractually bound/obliged to finish the work.

(Definition of contractual adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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