All 9 Uses of
contract
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- The house cracked loudly as the cooler night air contracted the wood.
Chpt 6 *contracted = shrankeditor's notes: Wood, like most materials, gets a little smaller as it cools.
- Well, this here fella's got a contract to pick them peaches or chop that cotton.
Chpt 16 *contract = legal agreement
- Sheaf of contracts, dog-eared, held with paper clips, and a neat pile of unused contracts.†
Chpt 7
- Sheaf of contracts, dog-eared, held with paper clips, and a neat pile of unused contracts.†
Chpt 7
- An' you put up fifty, an' you can sign a contract to send the rest at ten dollars a month.†
Chpt 7
- An' I got fifty cash an' a contract for forty more.†
Chpt 7
- Well, I'm contracting the land.†
Chpt 20
- You took the contract, didn' you?†
Chpt 20
- He ain't allowed to contract men without a license.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
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(2)
(contract as in: contract the disease) to get -- especially in reference to a disease
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(3)
(contract as in: the metal contracted) when something gets shorter or smaller
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A grammatical sense of the word form contraction describes can't as a shortened form of can not.