0 past simple and past 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.
These workers then relay the information (by fax) to the referral units of the contracted agencies.
This picture derived from marriages contracted is supported by other data included surveys of marriages (or other stable unions) actually in force in particular communities.
The number of pubilles and the nature of their marriage settlements they contracted has been calculated by using two different sources.
It narrows the subterms at the same positions that are contracted by the reduction using the same rewrite rules.
For a given standard reduction derivation its lifted narrowing derivation is not necessarily that in which only 'needed' narrowable terms are contracted.
Within that contracted sector, cotton has lost much acreage to new crops.
Text-figure 2 shows an increasing divorce trend for marriages contracted in the different 5-year periods.
In the old kingdom, everything vanished and contracted.
