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open-book contracts

open-book contracts is the plural of open-book contract.

Meaning of open-book contract

Noun

open-book contract (plural open-book contracts)

  1. A contract in which the buyer and seller of work or services agree on (i) which costs are remunerable and (ii) the margin that the supplier can add to these costs. The project is then invoiced to the customer based on the actual costs incurred plus the agreed margin.

Questions about open-book contracts

What is open-book contracts the plural of?
Open-book contracts is the plural of open-book contract.

Words near open-book contracts in the dictionary

  1. open-arse
  2. open-arses
  3. open-back
  4. open-book
  5. open-book contract
  6. open-book contracts
  7. open-breasted
  8. open-carried
  9. open-carries
  10. open-carry
  11. open-carrying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: open-book contracts (page history and authors); open-book contract (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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