contractor
pronunciation
How to pronounce contractor in British English:
UK [kənˈtræktə(r)]
How to pronounce contractor in American English:
US [ˈkɑnˌtræktɚ, kənˈtræk-]
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- Noun:
- someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
- the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
- (law) a party to a contract
- a bodily organ that contracts
Word Origin
- contractor (n.)
- 1540s, "one who enters into a contract," from Late Latin contractor, agent noun from past participle stem of Latin contrahere (see contract (n.)); specifically of "one who enters into a contract to provide work, services, or goods" from 1724.
Synonym
Example
- 1. A large american defence contractor could bid for bae .
- 2. The main structure of the construction project must be constructed by the contractor itself .
- 3. That episode followed an earlier embarrassment , when jetblue had handed over the names of its customers to a military contractor looking for terrorists .
- 4. The security contractor from iraq concurs .
- 5. Must have been a cheap contractor .