Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or having made a contract or treaty; stipulating: as, the contracting parties to a league.
- Binding a contract; given in confirmation of a bargain or an agreement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the act or process of acquiring an infectious disease; contraction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That is getting
smaller . - verb Present participle of
contract ., as in hiring or trading.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun becoming infected
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Examples
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It raises the serious risk that State will be required to undertake a very large, hurried, expensive, and unprecedented exercise in contracting unless some change is negotiated in the Security Agreement or unless the Government of Iraq demonstrates serious capability and intent to provide the normal array of host-nation security and commercial services.
David Isenberg: The State Department Takes Charge: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid David Isenberg 2010
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Development contracting is essentially government-sponsored stabilization and reconstruction efforts outsourced to private contractors.
Malou Innocent: Afghanistan's Massive Contracting Fraud Malou Innocent 2010
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In an interview, another reformer, Margie Brown, president and chief executive of Cook Inlet Region, said that federal contracting is a great tool but that the ability to get unlimited contracts without competition has unintended consequences.
ANC reform: Alaska natives battle for change Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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Development contracting is essentially government-sponsored stabilization and reconstruction efforts outsourced to private contractors.
Malou Innocent: Afghanistan's Massive Contracting Fraud Malou Innocent 2010
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In an interview, another reformer, Margie Brown, president and chief executive of Cook Inlet Region, said that federal contracting is a great tool but that the ability to get unlimited contracts without competition has unintended consequences.
ANC reform: Alaska natives battle for change Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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There are a lot of constraints on people in contracting etc. that requires proofreading and second opinions, a simple mistake that is seen too quickly could have drastic repercussions.
Google Wave “Is What Email Would Look Like If It Were Invented Today” | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The rare FDIC move resulted in contracting out running the failed Greeley bank to Bank of the West for a 30 day period.
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Just one example from the GAO report; A Las Vegas firm falsely claimed it was a veteran-owned small business to compete for $200 million in contracting work to maintain trailers for Katrina victims.
NEWS NOVEMBER 2009 2010
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Imagine how bad the ethonol problem would be without Randy Leonard's gross incomeptence in contracting the city to pay $7.00/gallon.
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Development contracting is essentially government-sponsored stabilization and reconstruction efforts outsourced to private contractors.
Malou Innocent: Afghanistan's Massive Contracting Fraud Malou Innocent 2010
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