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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs contract, contractualise and contractualize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

contracted
  1. (not comparable) Arranged by contract; established by agreement.
  2. Made smaller by contraction.
  3. Incurred; acquired.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. abridged, concise, condensed, brief, summary, shortened, abbreviated, compressed, thumbnail, summarised, summarized, synoptic, cut, reduced, potted, truncated, curtailed, clipped, abstracted, edited, diminished, lessened, trimmed, synopsized, bowdlerised, bowdlerized, pruned, precised, shrunk, shorter, outline, cropped, digest, skeleton, essential, expurgated, decreased, simplified, cut short, bare-bones, cut down, pared down, stripped down, succinct, compact, compendious, short, terse, crisp, aphoristic … more
contractible
  1. Capable of contraction
  2. (mathematics) (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
  3. Examples:
      4. “A container having a contractible body for storing a liquid is provided.”
      “Alaska Native tribes had taken over all contractible functions from IHS because it was considered substandard.”
      “The upper panel further comprises a contractible tensible member to hold the cover to the vessel adjacent the neck portion of the vessel.”
contractualistic
  1. Based on a contract
  2. Relating to the theories of contractualism
contract
  1. (obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
  2. (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
contractile
  1. Capable of contracting, or of being contracted.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. astringent, contracting, contractive, constricting, styptic, shrinkage-inducing
  3. Examples:
      4. “A similar pattern of contractile and relaxant responses was seen in the pulmonary veins.”
      “Smooth muscle fibers usually contract slowly but are capable of sustained contractile activity.”
      “The contractile activity in the distal esophagus was normal with propagating contractions of appropriate amplitude and duration.”
contractive
  1. Able to contract; contractile
  2. Synonyms:
      3. compressive, constrictive, binding, compacting, cramping, crushing, packing, pressing, squashing, squeezing, astringent, contractile, contracting, constricting, styptic, shrinkage-inducing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Like the previous budgets of the past seven years, the spending plan is austere and is even likely to have a contractive effect on the economy.”
      “We began by having a heated discussion on the use of apostrophes and whether the contractive use and the possessive use can be combined.”
      “Scarcity and abundance of resources are contractive and expansive of life's possibilities and probabilities.”
contractured
  1. (medicine) deformed by contracture
contractable
  1. Capable of being contracted (in various senses).
  2. Examples:
      3. “Your destination may carry a risk of a contractable disease such as malaria, typhoid, cholera or even rabies.”
      “I highly doubt this is a contractable disease you are dealing with.”
      “They are compact sets, similar to those that are contractable, and behave homotropically much like points.”
contractarian
  1. Relating to contractarianism
contractural
  1. (pathology) Of or pertaining to contractures.
contractional
  1. of or related to contraction
  2. Examples:
      3. “The whaleback upward-facing folds of Domain 2 are consistent with a dominantly subhorizontal NW-SE contractional strain.”
      “The earthquake was generated by contractional deformation along the Léogâne fault, a small hidden thrust fault discovered underneath the city of Léogâne.”
      “In a similar way the substrate has a surface 'free' energy level, the 'attractional force', which tries to overcome the contractional force of the liquid.”
contractualized
  1. Bound by a contract.
contractual
  1. Of or pertaining to a contract.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pledged, predetermined, prescribed, promised, votive, vowed
  3. Examples:
      4. “Too many franchisors are able to abuse their market power and contractual obligations without any effective sanction under the current law.”
      “The dispute was not validly referred for adjudication under the contractual provisions.”
      “The fact that the employee is dismissed while in receipt of his contractual sick pay does not make the termination automatically unfair.”
contractionless
  1. (logic) Without contractions.
contracting
  1. That is getting smaller.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gradually reducing, decreasing, diminishing, lessening, shrinking, tapering, petering out, declining, dwindling, dimming, slackening, ebbing, drooping, subsiding, receding, failing, abating, slumping, weakening, deteriorating, atrophying, collapsing, withering, degenerating, vanishing, moribund, fading, winding down, tailing off, dissolving, growing faint, giving way, on the way out, on the decline, sinking, on one's last legs, flagging, evaporating, evanescing, tapering off, dying out, melting away, obsolescent, drawing to a close, on the wane, fading away, in remission, in a state of deterioration, attenuating, in a slump … more
contractless
  1. Without a contract.
contractionary
  1. Tending to cause contraction.
  2. Examples:
      3. “New borrowing finances additional spending, but it also contributes to a buildup of debts and debt-service obligations that are contractionary.”
      “That pace may well be healthy enough to offset the contractionary forces of the tech downturn, falling exports, and rising layoffs.”
      “The shift in fiscal stance should have imparted a contractionary bias to the economy, yet over the last four years the economy has prospered.”
contractualised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of contractualise
contractualising
  1. present participle of contractualise
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