All 6 Uses of
contract
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- I could tell she wanted me to ask her about something, but I couldn't tell what, because my stomach wouldn't shut up, which was forcing me deep inside a worry that I'd somehow contracted a parasitic infection.
p. 4.4 *contracted = got (a disease)
- From what I could gather, the company had bribed a bunch of state officials in exchange for contracts to build a better sewer overflow system in Indianapolis.
p. 62.4 *contracts = agreements
- Pickett Engineering had gotten the initial contract, but they'd never finished the work, and it had gone way over budget, so the government pulled the contract from Pickett's company and allowed anyone to bid on finishing the project.
p. 62.7contract = legal agreement to provide something
- Pickett Engineering had gotten the initial contract, but they'd never finished the work, and it had gone way over budget, so the government pulled the contract from Pickett's company and allowed anyone to bid on finishing the project.
p. 62.8
- And then, even though they'd done a terrible job the first time, Pickett Engineering won the new contract—apparently by bribing state officials.
p. 62.9
- I contracted my face into a smile and nodded.
p. 99.1 *contracted = pulled back
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.