Contractor
[kən'træktə] or [kən'træktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things.
(noun.) (law) a party to a contract.
(noun.) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps.
Typed by Annette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- I therefore myself dismissed the contractor and made a new contract with a native, at more than double the original price. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That (it seems to the Contractor) is the way of looking at it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The view looks north from the slide past Gold and Contractor’s Hills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The contractor promised that the animals should be on hand in the morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What an excellent army contractor Miss Keeldar would have been! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I worked then for a horse contractor of Zaragoza. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The government paid in hard cash to the contractor the stipulated price. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is the Contractor, who is Providence to five hundred thousand men. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By which means, or by others, he grew rich as a Dust Contractor, and lived in a hollow in a hilly country entirely composed of Dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No sensible or efficient station manager or electric contractor would ever think of an installation made upon any other plan. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Boots says that one of them is a Contractor who (it has been calculated) gives employment, directly and indirectly, to five hundred thousand men. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Contractors can transport material long distances and save both time and money. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Weldon