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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
-'s
  1. forming the possessive singular of nouns and some pronouns: man's, one's
  2. forming the possessive plural of nouns whose plurals do not end in -s: children's
  3. forming the plural of numbers, letters, or symbols: 20's, p's and q's
  4. contraction of is or has: she's here, Misha's coming, it's gone
  5. contraction of us with let: let's
  6. contraction of does in some questions: where's he live?, what's she do?
Etymology: senses 1, 2: assimilated contraction from Middle English -es, from Old English, masculine and neuter genitive singular; sense 3, equivalent to -s1
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