Definitions

Adjusted Score

An arbitrary score awarded by the Director (see Law 12 ). It is either ``artificial'' or ``assigned''.
1. An artificial adjusted score is one awarded in lieu of a result because no result can be obtained or estimated for a particular deal (e.g., when an irregularity prevents play of a deal).
2. An assigned adjusted score is awarded to one side, or to both sides, to be the result of the deal in place of the result actually obtained after an irregularity.

Alert

A notification, whose form may be specified by a sponsoring organization, to the effect that opponents may be in need of an explanation.

Auction

1. The process of determining the contract by means of successive calls.
2. The aggregate of calls made (see Law 17E).

Bid

An undertaking to win at least a specified number of odd tricks in a specified denomination.

Board

1. A duplicate board as described in Law 2 .
2. The four hands as originally dealt and placed in a duplicate board for play during that session.

Call

Any bid, double, redouble or pass.

Contestant

In an individual event, a player; in a pair event, two players playing as partners throughout the event; in a team event, four or more players playing as teammates.

Contract

The undertaking by declarer's side to win, at the denomination named, the number of odd tricks specified in the final bid, whether undoubled, doubled, or redoubled.

Convention 

1. A call that, by partnership agreement, conveys a meaning other than willingness to play in the denomination named (or in the last denomination named), or high-card strength or length (three cards or more) there. However, an agreement as to overall strength does not make a call a convention.
2. Defender's play that serves to convey a meaning by agreement rather than inference.

Deal

1. The distribution of the pack to form the hands of the four players.
2. The cards so distributed considered as a unit, including the auction and play thereof.

Declarer

The player who, for the side that makes the final bid, first bid the denomination named in that bid. He becomes declarer