contraction
noun
/kɒn-/
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/kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/
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/kənˈtɹækʃn̩/
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- (biology, medicine) A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
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kontraktio,
lähentyminen
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- (orthography) In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.
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kontraktio,
supistumamuoto
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- (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.
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kontraktio,
supistuminen
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- (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.
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lihassupistus,
supistus,
synnytyssupistus
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- (by extension) A shorthand symbol indicating an omission for the purpose of brevity.
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lyhennemerkki
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- A (sometimes reversible) contracting or reduction in length, scope, size, or volume; a narrowing, a shortening, a shrinking.
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supistuminen
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- (economics) A period of economic decline or negative growth.
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taantuma
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- (archaic) An act of entering into a contract or agreement; specifically, a contract of marriage; a contracting; also (obsolete) , a betrothal.
- (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”)
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tarttuminen,
tartunta
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contract
noun
/ˈkɑntɹækt/
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/ˈkɒntɹækt/
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- (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
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sopimus
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- (bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
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sitoumus
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- (legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
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sopimusoikeus
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- (informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
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toimeksianto
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- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
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urakka
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contract
verb
/kənˈtɹækt/
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- (transitive) To gain or acquire (an illness).
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sairastua
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- (ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
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supistua,
vetäytyä
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- (intransitive) To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
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tehdä sopimus
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