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subcontractor
[ suhb-kon-trak-ter, suhb-kon-, suhb-kuhn-trak-ter ]
noun
- Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
- a person or business firm contracted to do part of another's work.
Word History and Origins
Origin of subcontractor1
Example Sentences
Auditors who examined the payments said that Intralot claimed credit for paying one local subcontractor $280,000 and another $179,000 for work that the subcontractors actually did not perform themselves, in violation of city rules.
By mid-May, it was clear Cyber Ninjas and its subcontractors would not be done in time.
As one example, the union supported Shannon Wait, a data-center technician employed through a subcontractor in South Carolina, through a wrongful suspension this March for speaking to coworkers about her working conditions.
Although it employs its workers directly rather than using subcontractors, the majority are reportedly hired on a day-to-day basis the night before via an app called “Coupunch,” or on temporary contracts that usually last a few months.
She noted that no election official or observer was allowed to remain with the machines while Cyber Ninjas and its subcontractors examined them.
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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