The difference between Contract and Shrink

When used as nouns, contract means 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, whereas shrink means shrinkage.

When used as verbs, contract means to draw together or nearer, whereas shrink means to cause to become smaller.

Contract is also adjective with the meaning: contracted.

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  1. Contract as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "Marriage is a contract."

  2. Contract as a noun (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.

  3. Contract as a noun (legal):

    A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.

  4. Contract as a noun (informal):

    An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.

    Examples:

    "The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him."

  5. Contract as a noun (bridge):

    The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.

  1. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

    Examples:

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  2. Contract as an adjective (obsolete):

    Not abstract; concrete.

  1. Contract as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

    Examples:

    "The snail's body contracted into its shell."

    "to contract one's sphere of action"

  2. Contract as a verb (grammar):

    To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

    Examples:

    "The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't"."

  3. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into a contract with.

  4. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

  5. Contract as a verb (intransitive):

    To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.

    Examples:

    "to contract for carrying the mail"

  6. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To bring on; to incur; to acquire.

    Examples:

    "She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens."

    "to contract a debt"

  7. Contract as a verb (transitive):

    To gain or acquire (an illness).

  8. Contract as a verb:

    To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

  9. Contract as a verb:

    To betroth; to affiance.

  1. Shrink as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to become smaller.

    Examples:

    "The dryer shrank my sweater."

  2. Shrink as a verb (intransitive):

    To become smaller; to contract.

    Examples:

    "This garment will shrink when wet."

  3. Shrink as a verb (intransitive):

    To cower or flinch.

    Examples:

    "Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip."

  4. Shrink as a verb (transitive):

    To draw back; to withdraw.

  5. Shrink as a verb (intransitive, figuratively):

    To withdraw or retire, as from danger.

  6. Shrink as a verb (intransitive):

    To move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.

  1. Shrink as a noun:

    Shrinkage; contraction; recoil.

  2. Shrink as a noun (slang, sometimes, pejorative):

    A psychiatrist or psychotherapist.

    Examples:

    "You need to see a shrink."

    "My shrink said that he was an enabler, bad for me."

    "synonyms: head-shrinker"

  3. Shrink as a noun (uncountable, business):

    Loss of inventory, for example due to shoplifting or not selling items before their expiration date.

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