(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed. / (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

(transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. / (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

(law) An agreement entered into between two parties for the exchange of a current performance by one for a future bequest by the other.

Capable of being contracted (in various senses).

(historical) The purchase of agricultural produce by the Soviet government from an individual farmer or collective.

The ability for something to be contracted.

A reversible reduction in size. / (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth. / (biology) A shortening of a muscle during its use.

plural of will contract

Capable of contraction / (mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation