All 3 Uses of "contract" in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"

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contract
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
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...just like you get contracts to cut wood.
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contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
That's the contract he signed when he was born—'I hereby degree that one of these days I'm go'n lay down these old bones.'†
Chpt 2
They used to get contracts to kill people just like you get contracts to cut wood.†
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(1) (contract as in: legal contract)
an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
(2) (contract as in: contract the disease)
to get -- especially in reference to a disease
(3) (contract as in: the metal contracted in the cold)
when something gets shorter or smaller
(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.