Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who agrees to perform part of the work specified in a previous contract between a contractor and another party.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who takes a part or the whole of a contract from the principal contractor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
contractor hired by ageneral contractor employed by the contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor
Etymologies
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Examples
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His longer-term subcontractor, the Okada organization, readily agreed.
Matsushita Leadership John P. Kotter 1997
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Woburn police said the driver of the truck was a subcontractor from the National Grid.
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Woburn police said the driver of the truck was a subcontractor from the National Grid.
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The county pays its subcontractor, which is owned by Lockheed Martin, $16.25 for each ticket it processes.
In Montgomery County, cameras are frequent victims of accelerated tempers by Petula Dvorak 2010
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The county pays its subcontractor, which is owned by Lockheed Martin, $16.25 for each ticket it processes.
In Montgomery County, cameras are frequent victims of accelerated tempers by Petula Dvorak 2010
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I then called the subcontractor Bluegrass Satellite direct.
DirecTV Installer: You Can't Have DirecTV. Stop Trying. - The Consumerist 2008
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It could be an out of frame: "Did you make sure to call the subcontractor about the drywall?"
Woman and sculpture. Ann Althouse 2007
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The subcontractor was the Mormon company of Benson, Farr & West.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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The subcontractor was the Mormon company of Benson, Farr & West.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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Yes, Scaled Composites would surely have been a very large "subcontractor" if the plan had received any money, if not the prime contractor since they also built a mock up of the proposed capsule and would be be responsible for it's final form.
Space Plane Idea for Laug Haul Flights Resurrected by Virgin - NASA Watch 2009
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