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

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.

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

(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.

Capable of being contracted (in various senses).

The ability for something to be contracted.

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

The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction. / Work done on a contract basis.

plural of contracting

(uncountable) The condition of being contractive. / (countable) The extent to which something is contractive.