All 6 Uses of
contract
in
Always Running
- She was the penetrating emotion that came at you through her eyes, the mother-guilt, the one who birthed me, who suffered through the contractions and diaper changes and all my small hurts and fears.†
Chpt 2 *
- There was also an "S.O.S." — a "smash-on-sight" contract issued on Ramiro.†
Chpt Pref.
- My award was $250, a paid plane trip — my first ever — to Berkeley, and a publishing contract.†
Chpt 9
- Berkeley...my own book contract...250 bucks!†
Chpt 9
- I signed a contract with Quinto Sol and worked on the publication of the book, tentatively titled "Barrio Expressions."†
Chpt 9 *
- This editor took along with him a number of Quinto Sol's authors, splitting up the contracted books.†
Chpt 9
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) when something gets shorter or smaller
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A grammatical sense of the word form contraction describes can't as a shortened form of can not.