Definition of "wouldn't" []

• Contraction of would not. (noun-possessive)

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• "For the first time I wrote all the songs and produced everything myself, which I actually wanted to do on the first record and the label wouldn't let me."
• "If you were pressed to affix a label to him, you could do worse than call him a "conservative," but then the label wouldn't be all that helpful since Brooks embodies that venerable American tradition of independent thinking and nonconformity."
• "If I had released them one at a time, the label wouldn't have made as much noise or signaled to retailers that we were here to stay."