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contracted out of

contracted out of is the simple past and past participle of contract out of.

Meaning of contract out of

Verb

contract out of (third-person singular simple present contracts out of, present participle contracting out of, simple past and past participle contracted out of)

  1. (transitive) To officially leave an agreement.
    • The department contracted out of that deal ages ago.

Questions about contracted out of

What is contracted out of the simple past and past participle of?
Contracted out of is the simple past and past participle of contract out of.

Words near contracted out of in the dictionary

  1. contractarianism
  2. contractarians
  3. contractation
  4. contracted
  5. contracted out
  6. contracted out of
  7. contractedly
  8. contractedness
  9. contractee
  10. contractees
  11. contracter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contracted out of (page history and authors); contract out of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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