contracting
Meaning of contracting
- decrease in size, number, or range.
glass contracts as it cools
- enter into a formal and legally binding agreement.
the local authority will contract with a wide range of agencies to provide services
- catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent).
three people contracted a killer virus
- become liable to pay (a debt).
he contracted a debt of £3,300
Middle English: via Old French from Latin contractus, from contract- ‘drawn together, tightened’, from the verb contrahere, from con- ‘together’ + trahere ‘draw’.
Information about contracting
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of contracting
con-tract-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- contracting is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
contracting synonyms
Meaning catching:
Meaning become or make smaller in size or amount:
Meaning make or become smaller or fewer in size, amount, intensity, or degree:
Meaning make or become less:
Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:
Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:
Meaning (typically of something regarded as good) become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease:
Meaning wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture:
Meaning commit oneself to and begin (an enterprise or responsibility); take on:
Meaning formally declare or promise that something is or will be the case:
Meaning assure someone that one will definitely do something or that something will happen:
Meaning agree by lease, deed, or other legal contract:
Meaning pledge or enter into a contract to do something:
Meaning have the same opinion about something; concur:
Meaning start to exist, experience, or possess:
Meaning contract (an illness) through infection or contagion:
Meaning contract (a disease or ailment):
Meaning become subject to (something unwelcome or unpleasant) as a result of one's own behaviour or actions:
Meaning buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself:
contracting antonyms
Meaning become or make larger or more extensive:
Meaning become or make greater in size, amount, or degree:
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