Present participle of contract., as in hiring or trading.(verb)
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Use "contracting" in a sentence
"Just one example from the GAO report; A Las Vegas firm falsely claimed it was a veteran-owned small business to compete for $200 million in contracting work to maintain trailers for Katrina victims."
"The rare FDIC move resulted in contracting out running the failed Greeley bank to Bank of the West for a 30 day period."
"Imagine how bad the ethonol problem would be without Randy Leonard's gross incomeptence in contracting the city to pay $7.00/gallon."