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adj. Tending to cause contraction.

adj. Tending to reduce the size of the money supply.

"And while Washington's budget can hardly be called contractionary, the pols have reduced federal aid to states and local governments enough to force them to cut spending and lay off thousands of workers, since the law requires that they run balanced budgets."

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