All 5 Uses of
contract
in
Flora & Ulysses
- SHE WAS A NATURAL—BORN CYNIC WHO LIVED IN DEFIANCE OF CONTRACTS!
p. 6.2contracts = written agreements that are enforceable by law
- "Remember the contract!" her mother shouted.†
p. 5.3
- Do not forget the contract!†
p. 5.4
- At the beginning of summer, in a moment of weakness, Flora had made the mistake of signing a contract that said she would "work to turn her face away from the idiotic high jinks of comics and toward the bright light of true literature."†
p. 5.5 *
- Those were the exact words of the contract.†
p. 5.6
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.