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contractor

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contractor
1. something that contracts, esp a muscle
2. Law a person who is a party to a contract
3. the declarer in bridge


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Mulvaney knew a contractor on one of the new Central India lines, and wrote to him for some sort of work.
"I'm my own contractor, my own carpenter, and my own bricklayer, and I shall be sixty-seven come Michaelmas," he added, by no means irrelevantly.
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.
 
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