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contractor

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contractor
An individual or organization that does work for another party. Contrast with "employee." See subcontractor.
contractor
1. something that contracts, esp a muscle
2. Law a person who is a party to a contract
3. the declarer in bridge

contractor
One who undertakes responsibility for the performance of construction work, including the provision of labor and materials, in accordance with plans and specifications and under a contract specifying cost and schedule for completion of the work; the person or organization responsible for performing the work, 1 and identified as such in the owner-contractor agreement.


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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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