0 present participle of contract
1 to make or become shorter or narrower or generally smaller in size:
2 to catch or become ill with a disease:
He contracted malaria while he was travelling.
3 to make a legal agreement with someone to do work or to have work done for you:
[ + to infinitive ] Our company was contracted to build shelters for the homeless.
Vertical integration and contracting began in the broiler industry23 and increased specialization and scale of agricultural production of livestock1.
This difference reflects the purposeful selection of producers by the organic contracting company, especially during the introduction of organic agriculture to the region.
This will satisfy the condition for a resolution, except in low dimensions, because the contracting homotopies will map each subgroup in the next one up.
We expect there will be less corruption in public works contracting in areas where the judicial branch is more efficient and where wealth is higher.
Contracting requires assets that are specific to the commodity produced on both sides of the transaction (producers and contractors).
Interestingly, the net effect is that firm profits are higher in the incomplete contracting case than in the complete contracting case.
We have defined the simple complex of a k-iterated complex by contracting all the degrees into one degree.
The social care case studies covered contracting for domiciliary care, day care, respite and residential care, and an emergency alarm scheme.
