Contracting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONTRACTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• CONTRACT, to decrease in size
• (of a muscle) become shorter and tighter in order to effect movement of part of the body
• shorten (a word or phrase) by combination or elision
• choose to be involved in (a scheme)
• choose to withdraw from or not become involved in a scheme
• secure specified rights or undertake specified obligations in a formal and legally binding agreement
• impose an obligation on (someone) to do something by means of a formal agreement
• arrange for work to be done by another organization
• formally enter into (a marriage)
• enter into (a friendship or other relationship)
• decrease in size, number, or range
• enter into a formal and legally binding agreement
• catch or develop (a disease or infectious agent)
• become liable to pay (a debt)
NOUN:
• the branch of law concerned with the making and observation of contracts
• an arrangement for someone to be killed by a hired assassin
• a formal agreement to marry
• a written or spoken agreement, especially one concerning employment, sales, or tenancy, that is intended to be enforceable by law
• becoming infected
• the declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trumps
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to decrease in size or volume

Words related to CONTRACTING

contract12 contracted15 contracts13

Words that contain CONTRACTING

precontracting21 subcontracting21 subcontractings22

How to use CONTRACTING in a sentence

• Henry, by contracting his eldest son, William, to the daughter of Fulk, detached the prince from the alliance, and obliged the others to come to an accommodation with him.
• The strongest feeling was horror at the danger Emily had been in of contracting an alliance with such a man.
• A Bengali Brahmin is still with us who directs one of the greatest contracting firms in the empire.
• A good-natured, lovable, shiftless chap in the contracting business.
• Such a treaty merely proved that between the two contracting States no serious inducement to break the peace could be imagined.
• It had the power of contracting itself considerably.
• Alternately contracting and relaxing his muscles, Locke succeeded in swinging himself in an ever-widening arc.
• We cannot help contracting good from such association.
• Small contracting offers another form of advancement.
• This is contracting a general feeling into a local one.
• Reflection came, contracting her vision and weighing her to earth.
• When we remove a muscle from the body it may remain capable of contracting for some time.
• Just here the bluffs swept inward toward the river, contracting the bottom to a valley only a few miles in width.
• We will never see twenty-five hundred again, for as families grow smaller, most of the Illinois towns like Homeburg are contracting slowly in size even while prosperous.
• We are no advocates of the formal modes of contracting matrimonial alliances common among many nations, and illustrations of which we find at all ages of the world.
• But they were unwilling to give the President the power of expanding and contracting the army in time of peace.
• There was not the slightest intimation of so radical a revolution as the surrender of the sovereignty of the contracting parties would have been.
• Or with contracting mind he saw the host Of mountain warriors banded, moving down Untrodden ways, as on young buds a frost Falls, and the spring lies stiff.
• The high contracting parties were signing the document as Becky returned.
• He had already looked into the contracting of beef to the government, and was particularly anxious to have my opinion on a number of contracts to be let the coming winter.
• The contracting provinces agreed to remain eternally united, while each was to retain its particular privileges, liberties, customs, and laws.
• Your government I look upon as a mere agency appointed by contracting parties to transact certain affairs for their convenience.
• Ireland, even by raising taxation to the highest possible point, was unable to pay her contribution without contracting a Debt colossal in proportion to her resources.
• The form which the final ceremony of marriage will take can well be left to the tastes and traditions of the contracting parties.
• Hear that prince, in the letter written to the Court of Directors, at the precise period whilst the main body of these debts were contracting.
• Strong, after his nap, was as a giant refreshed, and his play of wit knew no contracting limits.
• However plausible, at first sight, the intervention of the State might be, it was soon perceived that it is always oppressive to one or other of the contracting parties.

Similar words containing NTRACT without suffix ing and without prefix co

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