Subcontract

Definition: Subcontract

Subcontract

Noun

1. A contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract.

Verb

1. Let out under a subcontract.

2. Work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Building & Civil Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Subcontract

Crosswords: Subcontract

Books

• 2001: Subcontract Management Manual (with CD-ROM) (reference)

• A Probus Guide to Subcontract Project Management and Control: Progress Payments (reference)

• Government Contracts & Subcontract Leads Directory 1996/1997: Government Contracts and Subcontracts: How to Get Moving Fast (reference)

• Guide to Fixed-Price Supply Subcontract Terms and Conditions: A Project of the Federal Subcontracting Committee, Section of Public Contract Law, Ameri (reference)

• How to Plan, Subcontract and Build Your Dream House (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Government Contracts & Subcontract Leads Directory - Cd-rom (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The stamp of approval goes on these sections of naval shell extractors before they are shipped from this New York state plant doing war work on subcontract. The plant formerly turned out merry-go-rounds. The naval inspect. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Blood transfusion bottles. In a small plant working under subcontract, John Kerr operates a turret lathe for tapping and drilling valves for blood transfusion bottles prepared by the prime contractor, Baxter Laboratories Inc., Glenview, Illino. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The majority of the state-owned landfills are managed by the public companies, although a number subcontract their operations to private enterprises. (references)

The small to medium size businesses and large firms, which are returning to their core business, may consider the option to subcontract logistic operations to third parties. (references)

Children

Spain

The Government mandates that all businesses that employ more than 50 persons either hire such persons for at least 2 percent of their workforce or subcontract a portion of their work to special centers that employ them. (references)

Economic History

Egypt

Most commodity procurement is done under subcontract or by Egyptian Government arrangements, rather than directly by USAID. (references)

Brazil

A Brazilian State enterprise is permitted to subcontract services to a foreign firm if domestic expertise is not available for the specific task. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

Multinational oil companies and domestic oil producing companies subcontract police and soldiers from area units particularly to protect the oil facilities in the volatile Niger Delta region. (references)

Political Economy

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Arabia requires foreign civilian contractors to subcontract 30 percent of the value in public works contracts to Saudi-owned companies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

nënkontratë, nënkontraktoj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قام بمقاولة فرعية. (various references)

Chinese 

分包契约. (various references)

Danish

benytte en underkontrahent. (various references)

Dutch

een onderaannemer inschakelen. (various references)

Farsi 

مقاطعه کاری فرعی , قراردادیاکنترات دست دوم , قراردادفرعی بستن , قراردادفرعی . (various references)

French

sous-traiter. (various references)

German

Nebenvertrag. (various references)

Greek 

υπεργολαβία (subcontracted work), υποσυμβόλαιο, αναθέτω υπεργολαβία. (various references)

Hungarian

mellékszerzõdés, alvállalkozásba vesz (to sub-contract, to sub-let). (various references)

Italian

subappalto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

下請� , 下請け , 下請 , 下仕事 (spade work), 又請� , 又請け . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

したし�"と (spade work), したうけおい, したうけ, またうけおい, またうけ. (various references)

Korean 

하청. (various references)

Pig Latin

ubcontractsay

Portuguese

subempreitada, subcontratar, recorrer a um subempreiteiro, contrato acessório. (various references)

Russian 

субдоговор, заключать субдоговор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zaključiti podugovor, podugovor. (various references)

Spanish

subcontrato. (various references)

Swedish

underleverantörskontrakt, lägga ut (expend, farm out, job out, lay out, let out, outlay, plot, push off, put out, run out), ingå ett underleverantörsavtal med. (various references)

Thai

สัญญารับช่วง, ทำสัญญารับช่วง, รับเหมา. (various references)

Turkish

alt sözleşme. (various references)

Ukrainian

субдоговір, укладати субдоговір. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hợp đ�"ng phụ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subcontract": subcontracted, subcontracting, subcontractor, subcontractors, subcontracts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: construct, contracts, coruscant, obscurant, turncoats.

-3 letters: accounts, contacts, contract, contrast, courants, obstruct, subtract, turncoat.

-4 letters: account, accurst, attorns, burtons, buttons, cantors, carbons, cartons, cobnuts, conatus, concurs, contact, contras, corbans, cottars, courant, cratons, octants, outacts, outcast, rattons, robusta, rubatos, santour, surcoat, tabours, toucans, truants, turacos, turbans, turbots.

-5 letters: aborts, accost, acorns, actors, attorn, bacons, bancos.

+1 letter: subcontracts.

+2 letters: antiscorbutic, subcontracted, subcontractor.

+3 letters: antiscorbutics, subcontracting, subcontractors.

+4 letters: subcontraoctave.

+5 letters: subcontraoctaves.