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con·trac·tor

(kŏn′trăk′tər, kən-trăk′-)

1. One that agrees to furnish materials or perform services at a specified price, especially for construction work.

2. Something, especially a muscle, that contracts.

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contractor

(ˈkɒntræktə; kənˈtræk-)

1. (Building) a person or firm that contracts to supply materials or labour, esp for building

2. (Physiology) something that contracts, esp a muscle

3. (Law) law a person who is a party to a contract

4. (Bridge) the declarer in bridge

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con•trac•tor

(ˈkɒn træk tər, kənˈtræk tər)

n.

1. a person who contracts to furnish supplies or perform work at a certain price, esp. in construction.

2. a thing that contracts, esp. a muscle.

[1540–50; < Late Latin]

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Noun	1.	contractor - someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things constructor, builder - someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) defense contractor - a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense hauler, haulier - a haulage contractor ship-breaker - a contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap subcontractor - someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor
	2.	contractor - the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps declarer bridge player, hand - a card player in a game of bridge; "we need a 4th hand for bridge"
	3.	contractor - (law) a party to a contract law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" constructor, builder - someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) party - a person involved in legal proceedings; "the party of the first part"
	4.	contractor - a bodily organ that contracts contractile organ muscle, musculus - one of the contractile organs of the body organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

Translations

مُقَاوِلمُقاوِل، مُتَعَهِّد

dodavatelpodnikatel

entreprenørleverandør

Auftragnehmer Unternehmer

ανάδοχος

contratista

urakoitsija

entrepreneur sous-traitantcontracteur

קבלןקבלן בניין

ugovaratelj

verktaki

appaltatore assuntore contraente imprenditore accollatario

契約人

계약자

zmluvná strana

underleverantör

ผู้ทำสัญญา

müteahhit yüklenici

nhà thầu

承包商承包人承包单位

contractor

[kənˈtræktəʳ] N → contratista mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

contractor

[ˈkɒntræktə^r] n (BUSINESS) → entrepreneur mcontract price n → prix m contractuel

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

contractor

n (= individual) → Auftragnehmer m, → beauftragter Elektriker/Monteur etc; (= company also) → beauftragte Firma; (= building contractor) → Bauunternehmer m; (= company) → Bauunternehmen nt, → Bauunternehmer m; that is done by outside contractors → damit ist eine andere Firma beauftragt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

contractor

[kənˈtræktəʳ] n (Constr) → appaltatore m, imprenditore m (Law) → contraente m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

contract

(kənˈtrӕkt) verb

1. to make or become smaller, less, shorter, tighter etc. Metals expand when heated and contract when cooled; `I am' is often contracted to `I'm'; Muscles contract.

2. ( American ˈkontrakt) to promise legally in writing. They contracted to supply us with cable.

3. to become infected with (a disease). He contracted malaria.

4. to promise (in marriage).

(ˈkontrӕkt) noun

a legal written agreement. He has a four-year contract (of employment) with us; The firm won a contract for three new aircraft.

conˈtraction (-ʃən) noun

1. an act of contracting. contraction of metals; contraction of muscles.

2. a word shortened in speech or spelling. `I'm' is a contraction of `I am'.

conˈtractor noun

a person or firm that promises to do work or supply goods at a fixed rate. a building contractor.

contractor

→ مُقَاوِل dodavatel entreprenør Auftragnehmer ανάδοχος contratista urakoitsija sous-traitant ugovaratelj contraente 契約人 계약자 aannemer entreprenør kontrahent empreiteiro подрядчик underleverantör ผู้ทำสัญญา yüklenici nhà thầu 承包商

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But when he got out at his own station, when he saw his one-eyed coachman, Ignat, with the collar of his coat turned up; when, in the dim light reflected by the station fires, he saw his own sledge, his own horses with their tails tied up, in their harness trimmed with rings and tassels; when the coachman Ignat, as he put in his luggage, told him the village news, that the contractor had arrived, and that Pava had calved,--he felt that little by little the confusion was clearing up, and the shame and self-dissatisfaction were passing away.

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I have committed follies, gentlemen,' said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, 'and I ought to bear the consequences without repining.' A murmur, partly of gratification at Twenty Seven's celestial state of mind, and partly of indignation against the Contractor who had given him any cause of complaint (a note of which was immediately made by Mr.

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I speak of the famous bridge of boats which Xerxes ordered to be built over the narrowest part of the Hellespont (where it is only two or three miles wide.) A moderate gale destroyed the flimsy structure, and the King, thinking that to publicly rebuke the contractors might have a good effect on the next set, called them out before the army and had them beheaded.

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The book immediately preceding this is called "Tom Swift and His Bit, Tunnel," and deals with the efforts of the young inventor to help a firm of contractors penetrate a mountain in Peru.