All 4 Uses
contract
in
Slammed, by Colleen Hoover
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- Since the school was so shorthanded, they offered me a one-year contract.
p. 74.5 *contract = a legal agreement
- After that, I'm under contract through June of next year.†
p. 74.5
- They withdrew my contract.†
p. 274.9
- It's finally here, and he's already signed another contract.†
p. 296.7
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.