| 词汇 | contractor |
| 释义 | contractor noun[ C ] uk /kənˈtræk.tər/ us /ˈkɑːn.træk.tɚ/ a person or company that signs a contract to supply materials or workers to perform a service or a job: 承包人;承包商;承包方;订约人 He is a building contractor who was working on hurricane repair in Florida. They are one of the nation's largest airport security contractors. Set designers work with contractors to build an entire new set for each episode. someone who works or provides a service for a company for a limited period of time, but is not an employee: Average hourly rates for IT contractors working in the financial services sector rose. They hire contractors to perform data entry and customer service tasks. Synonym contract worker His father is a heating and plumbing contractor. The contractors hired to build the dam took eight years to complete it. The union represents contractors who bill by the hour as well as those who bill by the job. The company admitted that 35 employees and contractors died on company business last year. The tax authorities ruled that the workers were employees, not independent contractors. Enterprises acquiree acquirer acquiror agency agribusiness answering service clicks and mortaridiom conglomerate consortium estate agent financial technology fintech firm flyer organizational organizationally parent company partner up partnership zombie company You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Employees & colleagues During the early part of the work, the contractor devoted his entire attention to the work of excavation. Each morning the engineer and the contractor marked with care the fall of the thermometer during the night, examined the frost upon the grass and tested its depth in the soil. Food. —The commissariat is supplied by a private contractor. He contracted for its making at a fixed price, and weighed out a precise amount of gold to the contractor. The King provided transport for each contractor and his retinue, baggage, and horses. contractor | American Dictionarycontractor noun[ C ] us/ˈkɑn·træk·tər/ a person or company that arranges to supply materials or workers, esp. for building contractor | Business Englishcontractor noun[ C ] WORKPLACE, HRuk /kənˈtræktər/us a person or company that is paid by another company to work on a particular project for a particular amount of money: Working 24/7 is something IT contractors grow used to if they want to compete. See also approved contractor building contractor general contractor independent contractor prime contractor Examples of contractorcontractor Prior to 1875, if waste was collected at all, private contractors had often undertaken the task. Contracting requires assets that are specific to the commodity produced on both sides of the transaction (producers and contractors). The two other drawings are contractors' proposals for the same system. In textile and jute industries, sardars were labour contractors and their status depended on how many labour hands they brought to the industry. The recruiting agents went to the villages to recruit the workers who were then handed over to the labour contractors. The contractors had to travel further to obtain workers. The paper does not include the other categories of independent contractor (dentists, optometrists and pharmacists) as no individuals from these groups were interviewed. They also learn to interact with clients, public authorities, craftsmen, manufacturers and building contractors. At this meeting, both the schoolteacher and the local building contractor were vocal in their criticism of how the matter had been handled. As experts move on and novices or contractors are hired, problems are likely to occur as tacit overview knowledge is lost. Fourth-class postmasters and star-route contractors lobbied heavily against rural delivery. The contracts are awarded to the contractors with the most appropriate bid. An even more powerful strike at the power of stage contractors was the department's newfound ability to monitor local auctions for stage service. More production processes are being outsourced to outside contractors, making supply chains longer and more convoluted. Independent contractors do not wish to be managed, hence their choice of independence. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withcontractorcontractorThese are words often used in combination with contractor. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. civilian contractor Civilians under a civiliancontractor are operated more efficiently. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 defence contractor I shall give the view of one private defencecontractor. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 electrical contractor An example might be specialist design work carried out by, say, an electricalcontractor prior to wiring a building. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with contractor |
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