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contraction
synonyms for contraction
- decrease
- deflation
- recession
- reduction
- shrinkage
- abbreviation
- abridgment
- compression
- condensation
- condensing
- confinement
- constriction
- curtailment
- diminution
- dwindling
- elision
- evaporation
- lessening
- narrowing
- omission
- receding
- reducing
- shrinking
- tightening
- withdrawal
- abbreviating
- abridging
- confining
- curtailing
- cutting down
- decreasing
- deflating
- diminishing
- drawing together
- evaporating
- lopping
- omitting
- shrivelling
- tensing
- withdrawing
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How to use contraction in a sentence
The economy’s deep contraction was heavily driven by services.
A country that escaped a recession in 2008 is officially in one now | Claire Zillman, reporter | September 2, 2020 | FortuneWhen it comes to visualizing expansion and contraction, people often focus on a balloonlike universe whose change in size is described by a “scale factor.”
In the cyclic universe, however, the smoothing happens during a period of contraction.
The varying rates of contraction will be most extreme in countries like Thailand, Japan and Spain along with 20 others, where declines could see their populations halved by 2100, a new Lancet report on fertility and population growth scenarios shows.
Africa’s population will triple by the end of the century even as the rest of the world shrinks | Yomi Kazeem | July 16, 2020 | QuartzThe expected population contraction will be due to dropping fertility rates with death rates being either at par with or faster than birth rates in several countries.
Africa’s population will triple by the end of the century even as the rest of the world shrinks | Yomi Kazeem | July 16, 2020 | QuartzSide effects may include recession, job contraction, 401(k) bruising, recurrent Dow fluctuation, and IRA bleeding.
Up to a Point: PJ O’Rourke on Sochi and Senate Slackers | P. J. O’Rourke | February 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“AOL had a history of turmoil—rapid expansion and then rapid contraction,” Bewkes says.
That would place the country in recession, typically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction...
The resulting credit contraction would be terrible news for the Italian economy.
Darwin considered that this protective contraction “was a fundamental element in several of our most important expressions.”
In fact, incredibly faster, after his once-a-century contraction of short years before.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyI take iowell (with a bar through the ll) to be the usual (Northern) contraction for Iowellis, jewels; F. text, joiau, pl.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerThe nick-name of Gigonnet was applied to Bidault on account of a feverish, involuntary contraction of a leg muscle.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheExpansion and contraction broke the high arch and the connexions between the arches.
Her lowered eyelids had that vague contraction which suggests a tear checked in its course, or a thought suppressed.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor Hugo
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