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.
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61, What power does the voter have over a local contractor who is one further stage removed from public control and accountability?
62, Similarly, repairs and maintenance should only be carried out by a specialist mastic asphalt contractor.
63, Within a year of this change virtually every unionized contractor had established spin-off companies.
64, Nearly every government contractor befriends and hires Pentagon employees and bends the rules wherever possible.
65, Construction shares also jumped more than 1 percent as a group, led by shares of general contractor Taisei Corp.
66, In addition, the continuing discussions between architect, contractor, and tenant might reveal the need for other changes.
67, The Contractor will be required to provide his own supply for drinking water etc.
68, We have no automatic right to Group work but we do try to be the preferred contractor.
69, For instance, the telephones at 3Com are answered by people who work for an outside contractor.
70, A contractor could use the actual performance when not working under claim conditions to establish what should have been foreseeable.
71, Similarly, a small business that hires a marketing consultant must determine whether the consultant is an employee or an independent contractor.
72, The National Science Foundation, which was footing the bill, decided to hire an independent contractor to complete the project.
73, Gary was an electrical engineer for a defense contractor in the Washington area.
74, The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat.
75, Bragg, 30, of San Marcos,(Sentencedict.com) who works as an independent contractor for a mortgage bank.
76, The Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse is sharply reducing its longstanding role as a military contractor in order to strengthen ties to the entertainment industry.
77, Contractors would then be invited to tender for the work, or a price could be negotiated with a single contractor.
78, Digital Systems, a government contractor, has yet to explain how t will succeed where Opus failed.
79, The relationship between each group and management was akin to that of contractor and client.
80, As a former building contractor, he had an eye for a sound investment in bricks and mortar.
81, For example, a job surveyor must know the areas where he is free to issue instructions and give guidance to the contractor.
82, The paper soaks overnight, then the contractor comes back and scrapes the walls clean.
83, The state parks department has chosen a new contractor, Park.
84, The contractor himself became a valued member of a Cheyenne bank and was on the bishopric of the church.
85, The more risk the contractor is required to take, the more expensive the price is likely to be at the outset.
86, We all know how difficult it can be to arrange for a contractor to carry out repairs to our home.
87, A main contractor will be appointed next March to move on site in April.
88, In Lezhe we found a contractor who had just completed a couple of impressive apartment buildings.
89, In that case the contractor sought to sue the engineer for losses arising from alleged under-certification of the amounts due to the contractor.
90, Probably this work should be done by direct order to a local plant 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.