contractive
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The current economic context suggests the board should maintain a contractive stance on monetary policy to bring inflation towards the target, the report added.
From Reuters • Aug. 3, 2023
In like manner, sulphur represents the active and passive principle of fire: the contractive force, or negative electricity—oxygen—produces flame; and the dilative force, or positive electricity—hydrogen—produces warmth.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The gas burner is made of a metal having great expansive and contractive properties.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 by Various
And the forms of the cumuli themselves tell us in manifold metamorphoses of a state of equilibrium between expansive and contractive tendencies within the atmosphere.
From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst
Even if marriage is placed on the most prosaic contractive basis it is a mistake, and indeed an impossibility, to pre-ordain the length of its duration.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
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