contractor
A person or company that builds or improves buildings or structuresA person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.
» Just like I thought, the contractor came back today, begging for more time.
Meaning
4 sensesA person or company that builds or improves buildings or structures.
Bauunternehmer, Bauausführer
подря́дчикpodrjádčik, подря́дчицаpodrjádčica, контра́кторkontráktor
підрядникpidrjadnyk
A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.
Auftragnehmer, Firma
A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.
Wartungsfirma
подря́дчикpodrjádčik, подря́дчицаpodrjádčica
A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.
подря́дчикpodrjádčik
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- (law) a party to a contract
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- a bodily organ that contracts
Examples
22 sentencesJust like I thought, the contractor came back today, begging for more time.
Tom hired a local contractor to remodel his kitchen.
Tom is a building contractor.
I'm a contractor.
deIch bin Subunternehmer.
Tom is a contractor.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Late Latin contractor, from Latin contract-, stem of contractus + -tor. FirsBorrowed from Late Latin contractor, from Latin contract-, stem of contractus + -tor. First attested in the 16th century.
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Forms
plural: contractors| Singular | contractor |
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regular
Synonyms
2 synonyms- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps:declarer
- a bodily organ that contracts:contractile organ