Multiple contraction consists in giving up several beliefs at once. The treatments of multiple contraction in AGM belief revision theory have remained unsatisfactory. The paper proposes a clear, plausible, and general model for multiple contraction in ranking-theoretic terms according to which multiple contraction turns out to reduce to single contractions. The belief set multiply contracted by {A ₁, …, A _n } is just the intersection of all the belief sets singly contracted by A _i (i = 1, …, n).