under contract

idiom

: required to provide something (such as work or a service) according to the terms stated in a contract

She is under contract with the TV station for three more years.

Examples of under contract in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ramsay is under contract for the upcoming 2026 season, and MNUFC likely will ask for compensation from West Brom. —Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 8 Jan. 2026

Teams were able to start making interview requests for coaches under contract to another team beginning Monday. —Arkansas Online, 7 Jan. 2026

Shanahan and Fangio’s mutual admiration Shanahan wanted to hire Philadelphia’s Vic Fangio as his defensive coordinator upon arrival in San Francisco in 2017 but Fangio was under contract with the Chicago Bears. —Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026

Luke Prokop, who was under contract with the Nashville Predators organization during the 2024-25 season, was perhaps the closest player to breaking the sport’s LGBTQ+ barrier but never got called up from the minor leagues to the NHL. —Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for under contract

• overreact
• abstract
• attacked
• attract
• contact
• detract
• distract
• enact
• exact
• extract
• hijacked
• impact