Collapsed 1 . That has shrunk, reduced: The economy has contracted by 3% 2 . P . of CONTRACT 3 . Who has acquired a commitment of union: We got married in Lampedusa. 4 . In grammar: that a union of words has been made generating a new one: 'al' is the contraction of 'to el' . A CONTRACTION is a morphological resource that consists of joining two words or more to form a single one. The figures of diction are used, mainly those of transformation and omission, the most common being the synalefa, where intermediate letters are eliminated, as in "al" and "del". 5 . In Chile, Peru and Uruguay : Referring to a person : entirely engaged in studies or other activity
