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contractor

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contractor \Con*tract"or\, n. [L.] One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Contractor may refer to: General contractor , organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or other facility Government contractor , private company which produces ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps [syn: declarer ] (law) a party to a contract a bodily organ that contracts [syn: contractile ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who executes the building or improving of buildings. 2 A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects. 3 A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES building contractor COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE big ▪ His dad-in-law was a Markby - the big building contractors . ▪ Many members of Congress of both parties serve districts harboring big defense contractors ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "one who enters into a contract," from Late Latin contractor , agent noun from past participle stem of Latin contrahere (see contract (n.)); specifically of "one who enters into a contract to provide work, services, or goods" from 1724.

Usage examples of contractor.

When Franklin informed him that the Comte de Chaumont was charging nothing, that they were living there at no cost, Adams worried that that, too, was inappropriate, since, as everyone knew, Chaumont was one of the largest contractors furnishing supplies for the American army.

Secretary of State George Shultz, who had once headed Bechtel Corporation, a major government contractor.

He recommended a contractor named Aaron Belton for the work, both for his expertise and knowledge of authentic reconstruction.

Having called six contractors between Charlottesville and Richmond, and being asked five times if she had checked with Aaron Belton, she had to admit that perhaps she would have to swallow her pride and ask him to come back.

Got an unofficial thanks from a couple of civ contractors who you let run away from that landing field.

He simply indicated that all contractors who dealt with the Government were entitled to immunity from taxation upon such transactions.

Shore, who had supervised the construction of the dragline, working along with the contractors, Bucyrus-Erie, seemed strangely reluctant to leave the fallen giant.

Background checks Policy: A background check should be required for all new hires, contractors, consultants, temporary workers, or interns prior to an offer of employment or establishing of a contractual relationship.

He had found Oom Sam established as a sort of task-master and contractor, and had promptly dismissed him, with the result that the supply of Kru boys was instantly doubled.

The contractors, evidently prepared for such happening, immediately filled the places of the concrete men with nonunion Italians.

Though McIntyre could be a bit of a playboy and partyer, he had a good feel for who was who among the contractors and his standing with the administration was impeccable.

By the time we caught a mistake in construction, alerted the contractor, tried to have the mistake corrected, and often recorrected, months would have gone by.

There was a shelflike cot arrangement, and a toilet, and a floor with speckled linoleum, so much like the linoleum in Langhorne Memorial Hospital that I wondered if the same contractor had installed both.

The strictum and laxum, the increased and diminished action of the vessels, out of which medical theories and methods of treatment have grown up, have yielded to the doctrine of local cell-communities, belonging to this or that vascular district, from which they help themselves, as contractors are wont to do from the national treasury.

In that case defendants, officials of certain labor unions, were convicted of extortion, by collecting large sums from contractors for assisting them in avoiding labor troubles.