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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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CONTRACTIBLE or CONTRACTABLE
Contractible, how I uderstand it, something that has the possibility to be contracted, i.e., become smaller size.
Contract - mutual written obligation. Some parameters can be included in the contract. They are CONTRACTABLE. Or CONTRACTIBLE? If the first is right, can I use UNCONTRACTABLE as a negative?
I am a PhD in Econ with Russian mother tongue. My advisor insists on CONTRACTABLE. He is canadian, and one of the best economists ever (Douglas Gale). I was not able to find this spelling anywhere. When I pointed to him some people do use CONTRACTIBLE he insists it either a different meaning (the one I mentioned in the first line) or a mistake.
Contract - mutual written obligation. Some parameters can be included in the contract. They are CONTRACTABLE. Or CONTRACTIBLE? If the first is right, can I use UNCONTRACTABLE as a negative?
I am a PhD in Econ with Russian mother tongue. My advisor insists on CONTRACTABLE. He is canadian, and one of the best economists ever (Douglas Gale). I was not able to find this spelling anywhere. When I pointed to him some people do use CONTRACTIBLE he insists it either a different meaning (the one I mentioned in the first line) or a mistake.
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r=66 Of course, business terminology gets newly coined every year, and -able is a suffix meaning "ability to". "
- r=66 Of course, business terminology gets newly coined every year, and -able is a suffix meaning "ability to".
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Here is the definition of contractable, and it is not what you'd expect:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contractable?r=66
Of course, business terminology gets newly coined every year, and -able is a
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contractable?r=66
Of course, business terminology gets newly coined every year, and -able is a
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