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contracted

[kuhn-trak-tid]

Example Sentences Origin

adjective

drawn together; reduced in compass or size; made smaller; shrunken.

condensed; abridged.

(of the mind, outlook, etc.) narrow or illiberal; restricted: a contracted view of human rights.

Origin:
1540–50; contract + -ed²

Related forms

con·tract·ed·ly, adverb

con·tract·ed·ness, noun

un·con·tract·ed, adjective

well-con·tract·ed, adjective

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Example Sentences

Six companies have already contracted for three-quarters of the oil.

So they recommended that the manuscript not be contracted.

During the financial crisis, hotels fell on hard times as both business and holiday travel contracted.

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Six companies have already contracted for three-quarters of the oil.

So they recommended that the manuscript not be contracted.

During the financial crisis, hotels fell on hard times as both business and holiday travel contracted.

It also has a long incubation period, making it hard for a doctor to determine where a leprosy patient contracted the disease.

Show me one person on the planet who contracted cancer eating fruit and vegetables.

George contracted the disease when he was a teenager.

They allegedly contracted with others to embed the stolen data onto fraudulent cards.

H pylori only grows in the stomach, and is usually contracted during childhood.

Some people make you feel expanded, some make you feel contracted.

The jobs that are about to be contracted out could prove more challenging still.

If there was only ice, and never an ocean, the cooling of the planet should have contracted the ice rather than expanded it.

The unique strains that occupy those areas, can only be contracted by other warts of the same strain.

He contracted food poisoning and died soon afterwards.

The contracted personnel will be responsible for the accountability, inventory, and storage of all property.

But this appears to be the first time a cat has contracted influenza from a human.

Now the library has contracted this out to some external vendor.

We do not know how much the economy would have contracted nor how much it would have recoveredwithout the looser monetary policy.

The frogs again contracted the disease, but it disappeared within a few days.

Now, of course, this study did not prove that the fatigued hand actually contracted less.

State has also contracted out for air support in the recent past.

Private security officers, contracted by the university, stand guard on street corners near the campus.

The manager contracted to hand over the future returns on his shares.

Knowing how many people may have initially contracted the virus has given medical experts a jumpstart on the epidemic.

Weigl himself contracted typhus twice, a demonstration that it could infect more than once.

At each location, a couple is contracted by the chain to supervise the premises.

ED has already contracted with existing lenders to service these loans.

She's lost count of how many times she's contracted malaria.

Biomedical research professors are contracted by pharma to test their drugs so that the results are not subjective.

There are three cases in one family, the head of whom contracted the.

Knowing how many people may have initially contracted the virus has given.

Electrical current keeps the muscles contracted and the eyes open.

The cause was pneumonia contracted after he broke a hip, his family said.

Then comes another, if smaller, batch after the new year including one-year contracted positions.

Sixty-three percent of the influenza-infected mice developed the flu and then also contracted middle ear infections.

Khurana belongs to a team that has been contracted by one of the utility companies that received a federal grant.

Foremost among causes of death come the contagious complaints contracted in daily practice.

Many of the athletes recruited do not understand the terms under which they are being contracted to play.

Output has now contracted for six quarters, making this the longest.

It had been thought that the newt simply contracted its body, forcing the ends of the ribs out through.

After his little sister contracted malaria at age six during a visit to.

Plus, vaccines will only help those who have not yet contracted the disease.

Pneumonia, which developed from a cold contracted nine days ago, was the cause of his death.

Each hose can be expanded and contracted independently.

Most physicians believed the disease was contracted by breathing noxious vapors, or miasma.

Third parties are contracted to perform this service for the manufactures.

He contracted the disease after an infected cat sneezed on him.

After several years of banning its contracted singers from appearing at.

Fencing and even branding are contracted out to a new breed of freelance day-labouring cowboys.

For the first time, free-range wild animals were confirmed to have contracted a human disease.

When he ran a current through it, the spring contracted and broke the circuit, so that the spring bounced up and down.

He contracted rheumatism in the hands during the war and was discharged for disabilities.

Other faculty members fail to make a distinction between contracted research and scholarly research.

The delivery company has been contracted to provide a complete repair and customer-service operation.

Since then the star contracted to a diameter about seven times that of the sun and is now burning helium at its core.

Just to expand a bit upon my concern for you: what you don't have is regular contracted experience as a faculty member in higher.

Irregulars also get far less on-the-job training than their contracted counterparts.

Engineering, and water treatment and supply companies that will be contracted for these projects stand to make profit.

Initially, the treated skin might seem tighter due to the contracted collagen and some swelling.

Hommel is among hundreds of contracted employees who have lost their jobs in the process.

The problem within education is how it can continue to discover and disseminate knowledge while achieving its contracted goals.

It has also been contracted to launch satellites for a number of government and commercial clients.

The hesitating, jerky quality of an overly contracted muscle releasing is apparent to both the observer and the experiencer.

Leptospirosis is contracted by coming into contact with or swallowing water contaminated with animal urine.

Students contracted for the grade at the beginning of the term, but then could drop down to a lower grade later in the semester.

Black holes may exist simply as locally contracted spacetime: gravitational energy directed to a dimensionless singularity.

By this point he feared she had contracted typhoid fever, the latest outbreak of which was killing many.

He contracted a cold last summer and later had a relapse from which he never recovered.

It's also not the kind of work that can simply be contracted out to companies, as in other areas.

We have to get this right the first time, and we've contracted with the best and brightest in the industry.

But there is still an unsolved mystery: where he contracted the infection.

Private lenders will be contracted by the feds to service student loans.

In terms of pathology, for example, humans that have contracted rabies typically die of suffocation or cardiorespiratory arrest.

The reason is not that new cases are being contracted.

She could see and hear until she contracted an illness.

Consider yourself a consultant, contracted for a short period of time.

WU then came to me, and contracted my business to host their virtual campus.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.

an agreement enforceable by law.

the written form of such an agreement.

the division of law dealing with contracts.

Also called contract bridge. a variety of bridge in which the side that wins the bid can earn toward game only that number of tricks named in the contract, additional points being credited above the line. Compare auction bridge.

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(in auction or contract bridge)

a commitment by the declarer and his or her partner to take six tricks plus the number specified by the final bid made.

the final bid itself.

the number of tricks so specified, plus six.

the formal agreement of marriage; betrothal.

Slang. an arrangement for a hired assassin to kill a specific person.

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adjective

under contract; governed or arranged by special contract: a contract carrier.

verb (used with object)

10.

to draw together or into smaller compass; draw the parts of together: to contract a muscle.

11.

to wrinkle: to contract the brows.

12.

to shorten (a word, phrase, etc.) by combining or omitting some of its elements: Contracting “do not” yields “don't.”

13.

to get or acquire, as by exposure to something contagious: to contract a disease.

14.

to incur, as a liability or obligation: to contract a debt.

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15.

to settle or establish by agreement: to contract an alliance.

16.

to assign (a job, work, project, etc.) by contract: The publisher contracted the artwork.

17.

to enter into an agreement with: to contract a free-lancer to do the work.

18.

to enter into (friendship, acquaintance, etc.).

19.

to betroth.

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verb (used without object)

20.

to become drawn together or reduced in compass; become smaller; shrink: The pupils of his eyes contracted in the light.

21.

to enter into an agreement: to contract for snow removal.

Verb phrase

22.

contract out, to hire an outside contractor to produce or do.

Idiom

23.

put out a contract on, Slang. to hire or attempt to hire an assassin to kill (someone): The mob put out a contract on the informer.

Origin:
1275–1325; (noun) Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin contractus undertaking a transaction, agreement, equivalent to contrac-, variant stem of contrahere to draw in, bring together, enter into an agreement (con- con- + trahere to drag, pull; compare traction) + -tus suffix of v. action; (v.) < Latin contractus, past participle of contrahere

Related forms

con·tract·ee, noun

con·tract·i·ble, adjective

con·tract·i·bil·i·ty, con·tract·i·ble·ness, noun

con·tract·i·bly, adverb

non·con·tract, adjective

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o·ver·con·tract, verb (used with object)

post·con·tract, noun

re·con·tract, verb (used with object)

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Synonyms
1. See agreement. 10. reduce, shorten, lessen, narrow, shrivel, shrink. Contract, compress, concentrate, condense imply retaining original content but reducing the amount of space occupied. Contract means to cause to draw more closely together: to contract a muscle. Compress suggests fusing to become smaller by means of fairly uniform external pressure: to compress gases into liquid form. Concentrate implies causing to gather around a point: to concentrate troops near an objective; to concentrate one's strength. Condense implies increasing the compactness, or thickening the consistency of a homogeneous mass: to condense milk. It is also used to refer to the reducing in length of a book or the like.

Antonyms
10. expand.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

contract

early 14c., from L. contractus, pp. of contrahere "to draw together," metaphorically, "to make a bargain," from com- "together" + trahere "to draw" (see tract (1)). Noun came first, then verb and variant meaning "become narrowed, get smaller," especially of a withered limb

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(both 17c.). U.S. underworld slang sense of "arrangement to kill someone" first recorded 1940. Related: Contracting (1580s).

contracted

c.1600, "agreed upon," also "shrunken, shortened," pp. adj. from contract.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

contract con·tract (kən-trākt', kŏn'trākt')
v. con·tract·ed, con·tract·ing, con·tracts

To reduce in size by drawing together.
To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together, as the pupil of the eye.
To acquire or incur by contagion or infection.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

contract definition

A legally binding agreement between two or more parties.

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