Type of worker theorized to have built the Death Star, according to a "Clerks" bit

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.

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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.