Synonym: contractile organ, declarer. Similar words: contract, on the contrary, contrast, contributor, by contrast, contrast to, to the contrary, actor. Meaning: [-ktə] 
n. 1. someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things 2. the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps 3. (law) a party to a contract 4. a bodily organ that contracts.
n. 1. someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things 2. the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps 3. (law) a party to a contract 4. a bodily organ that contracts. 
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1, The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.
2, It criticises the main contractor for seriously erring in its original estimates.
3, The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.
4, A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
5, It is inadvisable to involve more than one contractor on a project.
6, We'll need to employ a building contractor to do the work.
7, Raytheon is a defense contractor and engineering concern.
8, Have the house inspected by a qualified building contractor.
9, It does not entitle the contractor to additional money.
10, Her father, Nicholas Bojaxhiu, was a building contractor.
11, The contractor is to meet the full cost.
12, The contractor approached me with obvious caution.
13, Its main feature is that the chosen contractor offers a comprehensive package comprising the site and a completed building.
14, Often we use a contractor to make use of the most-up-to-date machinery around.
15, Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
16, The space agency and its contractor switched supplies to comply with environmental regulations.
17, That of the contractor is to ensure a profit in doing so.
18, She and Joe Greenspun, a building contractor,(http://sentencedict.com/contractor.html) married in Detroit in 1951.
19, It is the world's largest defence contractor and definitely not on the brink of going out of business.
20, Mike Sollers, an independent contractor with an electronics firm, was edgy the afternoon we met.
21, In the standard form the contractor must pay to or allow the employer the liquidated damages.
22, According to local folklore the contractor, who went bankrupt, was the first inmate detained for non payment of debts.
23, Alternatively the contractor may sub-let the work to a domestic sub-contractor with the written consent of the architect.
24, My boss has given me a free hand in deciding which outside contractor to use.
25, The contract defines the apportionment of risks between employer and contractor.
26, Epp noted that the film had been processed by a private contractor.
27, Many labour-only subcontractors have grasped the opportunity to expand initially to a labour and material sub-contractor and subsequently to a general contractor.
28, Each of these stages would be examined against records of the client, equipment supplier and main contractor.
29, What are the arrangements if you retire from the organisation as a salaried employee but become a retained consultant or contractor?
30, Here, as elsewhere, hospital cleaning services were won by a private contractor.
More similar words: contract, on the contrary, contrast, contributor, by contrast, contrast to, to the contrary, actor, factor, factory, attract, abstract, distract, control, attractive, attraction, contribute, contribution, contretemps, contribute to, out of control, controversy, concentrate, control group, under control, controversial, beyond control, concentration, concentrating, act out.