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contraction

C1 noun
us /kənˈtɹækʃ(ə)n/

contraction /kənˈtɹakʃn̩/ nghĩa là sự mắc nợ; sự nhiễm phải (điều xấu)

Các nghĩa

  1. sự mắc nợ; sự nhiễm phải (điều xấu)

    An act of incurring debt; also (generally), an act of acquiring something (generally negative).

    countable · uncountable

    Our contraction of debt in this quarter has reduced our ability to attract investors.

  2. sự nhiễm bệnh

    The process of contracting or becoming infected with a disease.

    countable · uncountable

    the contraction of malaria

  3. sự co kéo mép vết thương

    A stage of wound healing during which the wound edges are gradually pulled together.

    countable · uncountable

  4. sự co cơ; cơn co tử cung

    A shortening of a muscle during its use; specifically, a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.

    countable · uncountable

  5. suy thoái kinh tế

    A period of economic decline or negative growth.

    countable · uncountable

    The country’s economic contraction was caused by high oil prices.

  6. sự rút gọn âm thành clitic

    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.

    countable · uncountable

    In the English words didn’t, that’s, and wanna, the endings -n’t, -’s, and -a arose by contraction.

+ 2 nghĩa khác

  1. dạng viết tắt (có dấu lược)

    In the English language: a shortened form of a word, often with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe or a diacritical mark.

    countable · uncountable

    Don’t is a contraction of do not; and ’til is a contraction of until.

    You would not use "it's" in this case / As a possessive (No, no, no) / It's a contraction (Yeah, ye)

  2. sự nuốt âm giữa từ

    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”).

    countable · uncountable

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