<span class="searchmatch">contract</span> + -ive. Rhymes: -æktɪv <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span>) Able to <span class="searchmatch">contract</span>; contractile <span class="searchmatch">contractivity</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span> + -ity. <span class="searchmatch">contractivity</span> (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">contractivities</span>) (uncountable) The condition of being <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span>. (countable)...
(antonym(s) of “shorten”): grow, lengthen <span class="searchmatch">contractability</span> <span class="searchmatch">contractable</span> <span class="searchmatch">contractible</span> contraction <span class="searchmatch">contractive</span> <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> out of decontract recontract (transitive)...
Hyphenation: con‧tract‧ed <span class="searchmatch">contracted</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">contracted</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">contracted</span>) (not comparable) Arranged by <span class="searchmatch">contract</span>; established by agreement...
<span class="searchmatch">contracting</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> <span class="searchmatch">contracting</span> (not comparable) Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area. noncontracting...
<span class="searchmatch">contracter</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">contracters</span>) Obsolete form of contractor. 1714, Scotland. Court of Session, William Forbes, A Journal of the Session, page 71: An apparent...
/kənˈtɹækts/ Rhymes: -ækts <span class="searchmatch">contracts</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> <span class="searchmatch">contracts</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> <span class="searchmatch">contracts</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span>...
employment <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> (plural employment <span class="searchmatch">contracts</span>) (law, business, human resources) A category of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> used in labor law to attribute right and responsibilities...
From <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> + -ible. <span class="searchmatch">contractible</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">contractible</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">contractible</span>) Capable of contraction (mathematics) (of a topological...
breach of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span> (countable and uncountable, plural breaches of <span class="searchmatch">contract</span>) (law) A failure to meet an obligation under the terms of a <span class="searchmatch">contract</span>. failure...