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A reversible reduction in size.

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A period of economic decline or negative growth.

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The country's economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.

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A shortening of a muscle when it is used.

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A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

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A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.

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In English didn't, that's, and wanna, the endings -n't, -'s, and -a arose by contraction.

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(English orthography) A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.

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"Don't" is a contraction of "do not."

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A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.

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The process of contracting a disease.

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the contraction of malaria

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Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.

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The acquisition of something, generally negative.

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Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

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A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

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