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subcontractor

[ suhb-kon-trak-ter, suhb-kon-, suhb-kuhn-trak-ter ]

noun

  1. Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
  2. a person or business firm contracted to do part of another's work.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of subcontractor1

First recorded in 1835–45; sub- + contractor

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Example Sentences

To work at the Navy Yard—even as a subcontractor, as Aaron Alexis was—required a security clearance.

Since then, this subcontractor has been removed from our supplier list.

I also buy the argument that the PA often functions as a “subcontractor” of Israeli security.

Standing with a male subcontractor, he allowed himself a sexist joke: "If it was easy, women would be doing it."

His employer was a certain subcontractor of Tepco, called Nito Resin.

He made them because he supposed the contractor or subcontractor had to make them.

Perkins was a subcontractor on the route from Rawlins to White River.

But I defy these gentlemen to find in the law any oath for a subcontractor.

Before that time the Government had nothing to do with the subcontractor.

Boone swears that the subcontractor was to have sixty-five per cent.

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