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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making or having made a contract or treaty; stipulating: as, the contracting parties to a league.
  • Binding a contract; given in confirmation of a bargain or an agreement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That is getting smaller.
  • verb Present participle of contract., as in hiring or trading.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun becoming infected

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