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▸ noun:  Senses relating to becoming involved with or entering into, especially entering into a contract.
▸ noun:  An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).
▸ noun:  (archaic) An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete), a betrothal.
▸ noun:  (biology, medicine) The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.
▸ noun:  Senses relating to pulling together or shortening.
▸ noun:  A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
▸ noun:  (archaic or obsolete) An abridgement or shortening of writing, etc.; an abstract, a summary; also (uncountable), brevity, conciseness.
▸ noun:  (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
▸ noun:  (biology, medicine) A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
▸ noun:  (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are reduced or lost, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
▸ noun:  (linguistics, phonology, prosody) Synonym of syncope (“the elision or loss of a sound from the interior of a word, especially of a vowel sound with loss of a syllable”)
▸ noun:  (ring theory, of an ideal in the codomain of a ring homomorphism) The preimage of the given ideal under the given homomorphism.
▸ noun:  (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) An act of collecting or gathering.

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