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Definition: Contractor |
ContractorNoun1. Someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things. 2. The bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps. 3. (law) a party to a contract. 4. A bodily organ that contracts. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contractor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
Etymology: Contractor \Con*tract"or\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Person who undertakes, for an agreed price, the execution of a work for the client. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The person who signs a contract to do certain specified work at a certain rate of payment. In mining, the contractor is an experienced miner or hard-heading miner. He or she employs other people and the work may proceed on a three-shift basis b. S. Afr. Mine worker undertaking special tasks on a contractual basissuch as shaft sinking, development blasting, etc. (references) |
Occupations | Contracts to perform specified construction work in accordance with architect's plans, blueprints, codes, and other specifications: Estimates costs of materials, labor, and use of equipment required to fulfill provisions of contract and prepares bids. Confers with clients to negotiate terms of contract. Subcontracts specialized craft work, such as electrical, structural steel, concrete, and plumbing. Purchases material for construction. Supervises workers directly or through subordinate supervisors. May be designated according to specialty license or scope of principal activities as Contractor, General Engineering (construction); Contractor, General Building (construction). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ContractorSynonyms: contractile organ (n), declarer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Contractor |
| English words defined with "contractor": cost-plus contract ♦ defense contractor ♦ hauler, haulier ♦ ship-breaker, subcontractor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "contractor": battery limits, bid unit prices ♦ change order, contract to make up work, contracting out, cutting supervisor ♦ FIELD CONTRACTOR ♦ general contractor ♦ Head of Cattle, hollised ♦ LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR, lien waiver ♦ Modernization Partner ♦ open invitation to tender, open tendering ♦ priced bill of quantities, Production contract, public invitation to tender ♦ regie ♦ sales representative, schedule of prices, shutdown time, SOIL-CONSERVATION TECHNICIAN, subcontracting, sub-contractor, SUPERINTENDENT, LOGGING, SUPERINTENDENT, SALES, supervisor, layout, SUPERVISOR, PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION ♦ tilbageholdt sikringsbeløb, Turnkey Contract ♦ vouched account ♦ yarding supervisor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The electrical contractor called, his truck hit a deer last night, so he's not gonna be here until tomorrow. (You've Got Mail; writing credit: Nora Ephron) | |
Clever | You work for a defense contractor if you find humor in Dilbert. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A contractor fits the ladder into the place where the dam was notched to hold the ladder in place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Contractor drilling holes in sand flat, dropping in fertilizer pellet and then planting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Contractor and NMFS manager explaining the project to the media. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | NOAA Restoration Center contractor, Tom Kane, documents the middle school videography project while on site to record the initial restoration processes. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A contractor buries an underground outlet in a terrace system. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |  | A Boone County landowner, right, helps a contractor install a riser for an underground outlet terrace system. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |
 | An NRCS employee, left, reviews watershed construction plans with a contractor in northern Missouri. Credit: Charlie Rahm. |  | Chicken operation produces fertile eggs for contractor. Credit: USDA. |
 | Haz-Mat clean up contractor. Credit: D. Huntington. |  | Contractor moving Hazardous Material on BLM land. Credit: T. Hogervorst. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is like a contractor become a councillor of state. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The contractor pointed to Floyd. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This contract, Investigational New Drug Toxicology for Drugs to Treat Alzheimer's Disease and Other Diseases of Aging, funds a contractor to conduct animal studies to evaluate drugs for toxicity. (references) | |
Business | The project is still in the phase of selecting the main contractor. (references) | |
The private sector prime contractor will finance the remaining USD 3.67 billion. (references) | ||
Contracts can be terminated if the contractor fails to perform according to the terms. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ireland | Project management of each line will be the responsibility or the contractor awarded that line. (references) |
Indonesia | The contractor conducts all stages of the operation and assumes all financial and operational risks. (references) | |
Nepal | Goods and services are generally procured from the supplier or contractor who quotes the lowest price. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bulgaria | One man, a building contractor, is charged with commissioning the murder, but Lukanov's son, who is seeking $25,000 (50,000 leva) in civil damages, has stated publicly his belief that others were behind the killing. (references) |
Political Economy | TURKEY | There are often numerous requests for "best offers." In some cases, years have passed without the selection of a contractor. (references) |
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | To bid on federal projects, a supplier or contractor must be either a UAE national or a company in which UAE nationals own at least 51 percent of the share capital. (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | Opportunities can include prime contractor and sub-contractor roles. (references) |
Argentina | The country with the largest share of the sourcing and the location of the main contractor generally will determine which ECA will lead the transaction. (references) | |
Bahrain | Requirements do not vary with the experience of the firm in Bahrain, nor do they change when the contractor is in a joint venture with a Bahraini company. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Jordan | The GAM, the contractor, and the subcontractor all claimed that the other parties were responsible for resolving the dispute. (references) |
India | Bonded labor, the result of a private contractual relationship whereby a worker incurs or inherits debts to a contractor and then must work off the debt plus interest, is illegal but widespread. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Contractor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Contractor" is used about 690 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.13% | 684 | 9,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 690 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "contractor": building contractor ♦ defense contractor ♦ haulage contractor ♦ prime contractor. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "contractor": contractor-built. | |
Ending with "contractor": co-contractor, customer-contractor, farmer-contractor, multi-contractor, sub-contractor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "contractor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | aannemer (builder, building, building contractor, master, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | muskul tkurrës (constrictor), kontraktues. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقاول (entrepreneur, provider, undertaker), متعهد البناء, متعهد (committed, cultivated, developer, entrepreneur, promoter, provider, steward, undertaker), متعاهد, الملتزم (conformist, copyholder, entrepreneur, farmer, hewer), المتعهد ب, العضلة المتقبضة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мускул който свива, предприемач (developer, entrepreneur, undertaker), доставчик (caterer, procurer, provider, purveyor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 包工 (contract for a job, undertake to perform work within a time limit and according to specifications), 承包人 , 承包商. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stahovaè, podnikatel (businessman, entrepreneur, operator, undertaker), dodavatel (supplier, victualler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ordremodtager, kontrahent, entreprenør (building contractor), bygmester (builder, building contractor, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aannemer (builder, building contractor, master builder), bouwondernemer (builder, building contractor, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konstruentreprenisto (builder, building contractor, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیمان کار, مقاطعه کار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakennusurakoitsija (builder, building contractor, constructor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entrepreneur (building contractor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unternehmer (businessman, employer, entrepreneur, industrialist, mercantilist, operator, trader), Bauunternehmer (builder, building contractor, building contractors), Auftragnehmer (firm accepting the order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εργολάβος (enterpriser, entrepreneur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קבלן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vállalkozó (builder, entrepreneur, go-ahead), szállító (carrier, caterer, chandler, dealer, deliverer, hauler, haulier, purveyor, remover, shipper, supplier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | verktaki (builder, building contractor, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pemborong (supplier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | imprenditore (boss, entrepreneur, manager), Contraente, appaltatore (farmer, leaseholder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 請 人 , 請 師 , 工務店 (engineering firm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うけおいに", うけおいし, "うむて" (engineering firm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 계약자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coonreyder (barterer, commuter, exchanger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | byggmester (builder, building contractor, master builder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ontractorcay empreiteiro (builder, jobber, master builder, undertaker), adjudicatário. (various references) contractant (contracting, subscriber), furnizor (caterer, furnisher, manufacturer, producer, purveyor, tradesman), antreprenor (employer, enterpriser, entrepreneur, undertaker). (various references) стягивающая мышца, подрядчик (builder, lumper). (various references) preduzimač (undertaker), preduzetnik (entrepreneur, promoter), mišić stezač, izvođač radova. (various references) destajista (builder, building contractor, master builder, pieceworker), contratista (builder). (various references) entreprenör (entrepreneur), leverantör (delieverer, furnisher, supplier). (various references) taraf (end, facet, hand, member, part, party, side, way), müteahhit (builder, building contractor, entrepreneur, purveyor), kasan şey, doğumda kasılan adaleler, anlaşmalı taraf. (various references) підрядчик. (various references) thầu khoán, người đấu thầu, bệnh viện (chaplain, hospital, infirmary, latrine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aedificator, aedificem, aedifices, aedificium, redemptor, redemptorem, susceptor, susceptoria. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contractor": contractors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "contractor": subcontractor. (additional references) | |
Words containing "contractor": subcontractors. (additional references) | |
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"Contractor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: conractor, contacter, contracta, contractee, contracter, contractso, contracture, contraster, contratto. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "contractor" (pronounced kÄ"ntra'kter) |
| 9 | k Ä" n t r a' k t er | subcontractor. |
| 5 | -r a' k t er | chiropractor. |
| 4 | -a' k t er | benefactor, malefactor. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, character, collector, compactor, conductor, connecter, connector, constrictor, constructor, defector, detector, detractor, director, doctor, erector, factor, Hector, inductor, injector, inspector, instructor, lector, nectar, objector, predictor, Proctor, projector, prospector, protector, reactor, rector, refractor, sector, semiconductor, Specter, spectre, stricter, superconductor, tractor, vector, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-o-o-r-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: contract. | |
-3 letters: arnotto, cartoon, coactor, contact, contort, coranto, raccoon, rattoon, rotator, tractor. | |
-4 letters: attorn, cantor, carrot, carton, contra, corona, cottar, cotton, craton, croton, octant, orator, racoon, rancor, ratoon, ratton, trocar. | |
-5 letters: acorn, actor, canto, coact, cocoa, conto, cotan, cotta, croon, narco, octan, ottar, racon, rotor, tanto, taroc, tarot, torot, tract, trona. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-o-o-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contractors. | |
+2 letters: concentrator, contradictor. | |
+3 letters: concentrators, contradictors, contradictory, gerontocratic, subcontractor. | |
+4 letters: contractionary, cryoprotectant, subcontractors. | |
+5 letters: anthropocentric, contradictories, contradictorily, counterreaction, cryoprotectants, nonaristocratic, reconcentration, teratocarcinoma, vasoconstrictor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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