Both Uses
contract
in
Queen of Attolia
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- Then I will escort you to my queen to begin negotiations for a marriage contract.†
Chpt 15
- "They are contract soldiers," Attolia said dismissively.†
Chpt 19 *
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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(contract as in: the metal contracted in the cold) when something gets shorter or smaller
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A grammatical sense of the word form contraction describes can't as a shortened form of can not.