contracting

English edit

Verb edit

contracting

  1. present participle and gerund of contract

Adjective edit

contracting (not comparable)

  1. Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.

Noun edit

contracting (countable and uncountable, plural contractings)

  1. The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
    the contractings of his muscles
  2. Work done on a contract basis.