Definition: 1. A person or company that has a contract to do work or provide goods or services for another company.
Use 'contractor' in a sentence:
1. Study on Responsibility Taken by Engineering Contractor due to Construction Infringement.
2. Will the contractor have to use a different grade of asphalt binder?
3. A bad contractor may hide mistakes or blame someone else and nickel-and-dime you with extra charges.
4. "The contractor," Rimney says.
5. Raytheon is part of prime contractor Northrop Grumman's NPOESS team.
6. The two met in 1999, introduced by a contractor.
7. If a contractor is working in your home, you don't need to tell them that there are cameras watching.
8. Chase up the contractor and get a delivery date.
9. He [the contractor] said the inspector had written several citations.
10. We got estimates from three different contractors.
11. The contractees and contractors should sign land use contracts to define each other's rights and obligations.
12. Research on Chinese Contractors' Entry to American High-level Contract Market.
13. Discussion on the Project Risk Management of Contractor in Highway Construction.
14. Dolosse was made by a different contractor.
15. The consortium includes some of the biggest building contractors in Britain.
16. It's a counterterrorism contractor.
17. Comprehensive Evaluation of Construction Project Risk Environment for Contractors.
18. However, if a contractor is working in your home, you don't need to tell them that there are cameras watching.
19. To make the contract attractive, the contractor subtracted a tractor from it.
20. Smaller contractors had been forced to shut down.
21. He's also one of the best young contractors around.
22. The words are those of a great American contractor.
23. The system will be operated by contractor personnel.
24. Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the THAAD system.
25. This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.
26. It criticises the main contractor for seriously erring in its original estimates.
27. Study on Technology Management of Large Contractors.
28. A Research on Contractor's Risk Early Warning of International Construction Project.
29. They might use contractors but they have full responsibility for the day-to-day running of their business.
30. Study on International Construction Market and Chinese Construction Contractors.
31. It criticizes the main contractor for seriously erring in its estimates.
32. Business Market Analysis and Development Tendency of International Project Contractors.
33. General Dynamics is prime contractor for the JTRS HMS program.
34. Scientific Management is the Key to be a Main Contractor.
35. They, in turn, provided work for many Irish home-building contractor firms.
36. The Air Force quickly became the think tank's main contractor, and Rand began consulting on everything from propeller turbines to missile defense.
37. The detailed requirements for the contractor's quality system are described below.
38. The security contractor from Iraq concurs.
39. We do need to find office space and equipment for each contractor.
40. Boeing also is a leading military and space contractor.
41. After revelations by the former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden in 2013 that the government both cozied up to certain tech companies and hacked into others to gain access to private data on an enormous scale, tech giants began to recognize the United States government as a hostile actor.
42. Research on Chief Contractor System of the Salt Industry Contract.
43. San Diego's municipal code, for instance, requires property owners to maintain landscape and vegetation standards—or face a penalty equivalent to the cost of hiring a private contractor to do so.
44. Initially, rather than appointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided to manage it themselves.
45. Initially, rather than appointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided to manage it themselves, despite lack of experience with an undertaking of that scale.
46. For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.
47. Private contractors joined in condemning the Government's stance.
48. We told the building contractor that we wanted a garage big enough for two cars.
49. Contractors who fall behind schedule incur heavy financial penalties.
50. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
51. The contract defines the apportionment of risks between employer and contractor.
52. Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia.
53. Then again, the air of accountability that the camera generates can also work in contractors' favor.
