Crossword clues for subcontractor
subcontractor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subcontractor \Sub`con*tract"or\, n. One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from sub- + contractor, or else an agent noun from subcontract.
Wiktionary
n. A contractor hired by a general contractor employed by the contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.
WordNet
n. someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor
Wikipedia
A subcontractor is an individual or in many cases a business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract.
A subcontractor is a person who is hired by a general contractor (or prime contractor, or main contractor) to perform a specific task as part of the overall project and is normally paid for services provided to the project by the originating general contractor. While the most common concept of a subcontractor is in building works and civil engineering, the range of opportunities for subcontractor is much wider and it is possible that the greatest number now operate in the information technology and information sectors of business.
The incentive to hire subcontractors is either to reduce costs or to mitigate project risks. In this way, the general contractor receives the same or better service than the general contractor could have provided by itself, at lower overall risk. Many subcontractors do work for the same companies rather than different ones. This allows subcontractors to further specialize their skills.
Usage examples of "subcontractor".
Corporate enclaves ran on the goodwill of their contractors and subcontractors, and those, in turn, ran on the goodwill of their home enclaves, both the ones scattered up and down the Human Chain and the ones on Earth itself.
If opinion on the web was bad, and the enclaves got nervous, the best contractors and subcontractors would turn the job down in favor of safer work, or would drive their prices up into the stratosphere.
Now, three former subcontractors for Lennar Homes have come forward claiming that company officials told them to bury illegal trash at 19 construction sites in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
According to the subcontractors, the debris included household appliances, auto parts, batteries and even a fuel drum.
The former Lennar subcontractors say washing machines and other secret goodies are interred beneath FPL power lines in the upscale Coral Springs developments of Turtle Run and Whispering Woods.
They also have a string of subcontractors, smaller finns, to whom they farm out work.
Two, the Quayle outfit kept detailed records of all its jobs, and those of subcontractors too.
The carriages leading the funeral train she had been watching only a few minutes before would undoubtedly have been decked with produce bearing that name, although the actual flowers would have been the handiwork of subcontractors using mass-produced seeds manufactured according to patented gentemplates.
The drawings were sent to potential subcontractors: steel manufacturers, bricklayers, window companies, electrical contractors.
The drawings were sent to potential subcontractors: steel manufacturers, bricklayers, window companies, electrical contractors.
Her general contractor, Mike Moscowitz, had introduced her to most of the subcontractors, but not to this one, who looked awfully young to be the boss of the framers.
He gave me a list of twelve big developers in the area who buy directly from the manufacturer and twenty-six distributors who market to installers and subcontractors.
It's one of several hundred multimegaton soap bubbles floating in the sea of turbulent hydrogen and helium that is the upper atmosphere of Saturn, seeded there by the Society for Creative Terraforming, subcontractors for the 2074 Worlds' Fair.
If subcontractors are willing to pay the penalty clause rather than deliver components to me, I can't send out a goon squad to take the stuff.
The early months included a heavy schedule of lectures, on astronomy, rocket propulsion, flight operations, capsule systems, and the trips to the contractors, and to the subcontractors, and to Cape Canaveral, where the rockets would be launched, to Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun and his Germans were developing booster rockets, to Johnsville, Pennsylvania, where the human centrifuge was located.