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A contractor is someone who is hired to build something. As a contractor at a building site, it is highly recommended you keep your hard hat on at all times.

When you think of contractor, you may picture construction sites; however, the word has other meanings as well. Legally, if you sign a contract to perform a specific job then you are what is known as a contractor. When there are not many full-time jobs available for workers, sometimes the only option is to become a freelance contractor, which might mean that you only work part-time or when needed.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: contractor

1	n	someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
2	n	a bodily organ that contracts
3	n	(law) a party to a contract
4	n	the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: contractor

n someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; 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; dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collector
someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse

Type of:: builder, constructor
someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)

n a bodily organ that contracts

Synonyms:: contractile organ

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; muscle, musculus
one of the contractile organs of the body; skeletal muscle, striated muscle
a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes; pronator
a muscle that produces or assists in pronation; supinator
a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination; levator
a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip); antagonistic muscle
(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another; eye muscle, ocular muscle
one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball; rectus
any of various straight muscles; involuntary muscle, smooth muscle
a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart); anatomical sphincter, sphincter, sphincter muscle
a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening; tensor
any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm

Type of:: organ
a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

n (law) a party to a contract

Types:: show 6 types...; hide 6 types...; builder, constructor
someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building); boatbuilder
a person who builds boats; home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder, housebuilder
someone who builds houses as a business; jerry-builder
someone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit; road builder
someone whose business is to build roads; ship builder, shipbuilder
a person who builds ships as a business

Type of:: party
a person involved in legal proceedings

n the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

Synonyms:: declarer

Type of:: bridge player, hand
a card player in a game of bridge

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