All 4 Uses
contract
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Sweet Far Thing
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- Every muscle contracts.†
Chpt 1
- These bargains are struck with a signature, a handshake, and a penny given out as a token of the contract.†
Chpt 2 *
- Now, let's see to your contract.†
Chpt 3
- It would be very serious if she were to contract the pox.†
Chpt 4
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.