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The sun was bright and hot, and I studied the contracting shadows of trees and market stalls and buildings around the square.
p. 70.4 *

contracting = getting shorter or smaller
He was talking about the Domain; and for us in the town the Domain had remained only a source of contracts.
p. 116.3

contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law

(editor's note: In this book, the author often uses the word contract to refer to a sales agreement.)
We judged traders by their coups, the contracts they landed, the agencies they picked up.
p. 119.1

contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
He had a way with officials and was good at getting government contracts...
p. 198.2
It was one of his sayings; it meant that stable relationships were not possible here, that there could only be day-to-day contracts between men, that in a crisis peace was something you had to buy afresh every day.
p. 210.3
All our contracts are oral, but we deliver what we promise.
p. 236.8 *

contracts = agreements
His grandfather had come from the Punjab in India to work on the railway as a contract labourer.†
p. 17.7
When he had worked out his contract he had settled on the coast and become a market money-lender, lending twenty or thirty shillings a time to stall-keepers in the market who ran short and depended on these small loans to buy their goods.†
p. 17.7
He was a United Nations expert of some sort who hadn't wanted to go back to India and had stayed on doing odd jobs after his contract had expired.†
p. 28.1
Sometimes there was a ceremonial coming and going at the barracks—the palace built by the great man of our community, which now had women's washing hung out in the partitioned verandahs upstairs and downstairs (a Greek had the laundry contract for the soldiers' uniforms).†
p. 68.5
Everyone in uniform has to feel that he has a personal contract with the President.†
p. 134.4
It was a family restaurant, and it served the short-contract men who were working on various government projects in our region—the Domain, the airport, the water supply system, the hydroelectric station.†
p. 168.5
So the old contract between Metty and myself, which was the contract between his family and mine, came to an end.†
p. 264.3
So the old contract between Metty and myself, which was the contract between his family and mine, came to an end.†
p. 264.3
Even if I had been able to place him in another establishment in the town—which I might have been able to do in the old days—it would have meant that our special contract was over.†
p. 264.4

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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.

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