it's
contraction/ɪts/
Etymology Contraction of ‘it is’, ‘it has’ or 'it was'.
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Abbreviation, Contraction Contraction of it + is.
- it’s too expensive; it’s coming right for us!; it's a free country
- [...], guided not by his own Will, but by the Medick Science, which dictates, that it's recessary, beneficial, and convenient to alter, mix, and temper this medicine, and fit it to the Disposition, and Constitution of the Patient[.]1743, Martin Marley, The Good Confessor, page 307:
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- The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
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Abbreviation, Contraction Contraction of it + has.
- It’s been a long time since I’ve had cheesecake.
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Abbreviation, Contraction, Proscribed Contraction of it + was.
- When I was a kid, it's the thought that counted but, now, it's all about the Benjamins.
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Contraction, Dialectal, Nonstandard There's, there is; there're, there are.
- It's a package for you by the door.
- Synonyms
- ’tis, ’twas