contracting
Academic Word List, sublist 1.
About 5.45 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of contract
- adjective Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
- noun The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
the contractings of his muscles
- noun Work done on a contract basis.
Similar words
catching contraction shrinking downturn collapse power entering getting handover level
Often followed by
parties party state states the out and with for
Word family
contract contracted contractor contractors contracts
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