All 3 Uses of
contract
in
In the Unlikely Event
- Okay, so he'd forgotten you're is a contraction.†
p. 277.1 *contraction = the act of getting shorter or smaller
- With his voice and looks, who cared about contractions?†
p. 277.2
- If war comes and we get the contract for military uniforms we'll be rich.†
p. 359.6 *
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.