Both Uses
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Metamorphosis
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- Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent in.
Part 1 *contracts = legal agreements
- For instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts.†
Part 1
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 in the cold) 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.