Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CONTRACTED

---

Definitions of CONTRACTED

1. Made smaller by contraction.
2. Incurred; acquired.
3. (not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
4. inflection of contract

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Examples of Using CONTRACTED in a Sentence

• The distribution of the aurochs progressively contracted during the Holocene due to habitat loss and hunting, with the last known individual dying in the Jaktorów forest in Poland in 1627.
• The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.
• The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million.
• In recent years, under the administrations of Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan economy has expanded somewhat, following the Great Recession, when the country's economy actually contracted by 1.
• In 1992, Lieb met Matthias Schindehutte, A&R man for the newly formed Harthouse record label, who contracted him for the Spicelab project.
• The first clause of the Article provides that debts contracted prior to the adoption of the Constitution remain valid, as they were under the Articles of Confederation.
• January 27 – Emperor Marcian dies at Constantinople, possibly of foot gangrene, an infection contracted during a long religious journey.
• August 29 – Emperor Basil I the Macedonian dies from a fever, contracted after a hunting accident.
• The railroad currently operates a public commuter rail service, with its freight operations contracted to the New York and Atlantic Railway.
• The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States.
• In telecommunications and computer networking, multiplexing (sometimes contracted to muxing) is a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium.
• An international auxiliary language (sometimes acronymized as IAL or contracted as auxlang) is a language meant for communication between people from all different nations, who do not share a common first language.
• There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1746 a group of London booksellers contracted Johnson to write a dictionary for the sum of 1,500 guineas (£1,575), equivalent to about £ in.
• The decision further contracted the nation's money supply and was seen by critics as an exacerbating factor of the so-called Long Depression, which struck in 1873.
• At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia; its range extended across the North Pacific during the Pleistocene epoch, and likely contracted to such an extreme degree due to the glacial cycle.
• Initially contracted to Paramount Pictures, Colbert became one of the few major actresses of the period who worked freelance, independent of the studio system.
• The marriage was contracted against the wishes of many members of his nobility and members of parliament, and occurred primarily at the instigation of Richard's advisor Michael de la Pole.
• He had taken a funeral for a fourteen-year old girl who had died by suicide because she believed she had contracted an STD, when in reality she was menstruating.
• In ancient Roman religion, Antevorta was a goddess of the future, also known as Porrima or Prorsa (a contracted form of Proversa).
• They contracted with the Lenape Native Americans for land of Old Cape Henlopen north to Sankikans (Trenton Falls), and inland as far as they desired.
• In 1978, a transformer manufacturer contracted a trucking company to illegally dump polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) alongside roads in North Carolina.
• The Mississippi Department of Corrections contracted for development of the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility, which opened in 2001 in the town of Walnut Grove.
• In the spring of 1839 a surveying party, contracted by the state of Michigan, reported that the land of this area was worthless.
• Paul Arendt had contracted syphilis in his youth but was thought to be in remission when Arendt was born.
• Packer John Welch, who had contracted to freight supplies to miners of Idaho City, established a camp on Gold Fork Creek and a brush cabin on Clear Creek in the 1860s.

Page preparation took: 190.29 ms.