Contract(n.)
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contract(v. i.)
- To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
Contract(v. i.)
- To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contract(n.)
- The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
Contract(n.)
- A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Contract(n.)
- The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
Contractability
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Contractable
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Contractably
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Contractant
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Contractation
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Contracted(a.)
- Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
Contraction(n.)
- The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
Contraction(n.)
- The process of shortening an operation.
Contraction(n.)
- The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
Contraction(n.)
- Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
Contraction(n.)
- The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.