English Online Dictionary. What means contracting? What does contracting mean?
English
Verb
contracting
- present participle and gerund of contract
Adjective
contracting (not comparable)
- Getting smaller; drawing itself together into a smaller area.
Derived terms
Noun
contracting (countable and uncountable, plural contractings)
- The act of something that contracts or shrinks; contraction.
- the contractings of his muscles
- Work done on a contract basis.