All 5 Uses

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Touching Spirit Bear
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He broke his contract with the Circle, and he violated our trust.
Chpt 14 *

contract = formal agreement
He had no intention of ever honoring the contract he agreed to during the Circle Justice meetings.†
Chpt 1
In Circle Justice, you sign a healing contract.†
Chpt 1
Cole, would you please tell us why you have broken your contract with the Circle?†
Chpt 14
What matters is that Cole broke his contract with the Circle, and now it's time for him to pay.†
Chpt 15

Definitions:

(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.