patient contracting

con·tract (k

)

a. An agreement between two or more parties, especially one that is written and enforceable by law. See Synonyms at bargain.

b. The writing or document containing such an agreement.

2. The branch of law dealing with formal agreements between parties.

3. Marriage as a formal agreement; betrothal.

4. Games

a. The last and highest bid of a suit in one hand in bridge.

b. The number of tricks thus bid.

c. Contract bridge.

5. A paid assignment to murder someone: put out a contract on the mobster's life.

v. (k

n-tr

, k

) con·tract·ed, con·tract·ing, con·tracts

v.tr.

1. To enter into by contract; establish or settle by formal agreement: contract a marriage.

2. To acquire or incur: contract obligations; contract a serious illness.

a. To reduce in size by drawing together; shrink.

b. To pull together; wrinkle.

4. Grammar To shorten (a word or words) by omitting or combining some of the letters or sounds, as do not to don't.

v.intr.

1. To enter into or make an agreement: contract for garbage collection.

2. To become reduced in size by or as if by being drawn together: The pupils of the patient's eyes contracted.

Phrasal Verb:

contract out

To engage a person outside an organization by contract to undertake or produce.

[Middle English, from Latin contractus, past participle of contrahere, to draw together, make a contract : com-, com- + trahere, to draw.]

con·tracti·bili·ty, con·tracti·ble·ness n.

con·tracti·ble adj.

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Noun

contracting - becoming infected; "catching cold is sometimes unavoidable"; "the contracting of a serious illness can be financially catastrophic"

catching

acquiring, getting - the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving"

Translations

contracting [kənˈtræktɪŋ] ADJ contracting party → contratante mf

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