contract
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～ reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
contract
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～ enter into a contractual arrangement
contract
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～ squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
contract
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～ be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"
contract
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～ become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank"
contract
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～ engage by written agreement; "They signed two new pitchers for the next season"
contract
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～ make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed"
contract
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～ compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
contract
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～ make smaller; "The heat contracted the woollen garment"
contract
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～ a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
contract
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～ a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
contract
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～ (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make
contract bridge
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～ a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid
conditional contract
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～ a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations
contractable
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～ (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
contracted
— Adjective
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～ reduced in size or pulled together; "the contracted pupils of her eyes"
contractile
— Adjective
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～ capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
contractility
— Noun
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～ the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
contracting
— Noun
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～ becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"
contraction
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～ the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope