| 单词 | contractor |
| 释义 | contractor (once / 830 pages) 1n 2n 3n 4n 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. WORD FAMILYcontractor: contractors+/contract: contractable, contracted, contracting, contraction, contractor, contracts, contractual, contracture, subcontract/contracted: contractedly/contraction: contractions/contractual: contractually/contracture: contractures/subcontract: subcontracted, subcontracting, subcontractor, subcontracts/subcontractor: subcontractors USAGE EXAMPLESThey also seized 12 employees of Umanizzare, a private contractor that operates prisons in the Amazon. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) They include “burdensome” school lunch standards, tobacco regulations, laws that set higher wages for contractors and elements of the Paris climate-change agreement. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) Contractors cut the tree down in late June. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 n someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things 2Hypo|Hyper defense contractor a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense hauler, hauliera haulage contractor ship-breakera contractor who buys old ships and breaks them up for scrap subcontractorsomeone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor dustman, garbage carter, garbage collector, garbage hauler, garbage man, garbageman, refuse collectorsomeone employed to collect and dispose of refuse builder, constructor someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) n a bodily organ that contracts 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper contractile organ muscle, musculus one of the contractile organs of the body skeletal muscle, striated musclea 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 pronatora muscle that produces or assists in pronation supinatora muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination levatora 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 muscleone of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball rectusany of various straight muscles involuntary muscle, smooth musclea 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 musclea ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening tensorany of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm 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 4Hypo|Hyper builder, constructor someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) boatbuildera person who builds boats home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder, housebuildersomeone who builds houses as a business jerry-buildersomeone who builds cheap buildings out of poor materials on speculation for a quick profit road buildersomeone whose business is to build roads ship builder, shipbuildera person who builds ships as a business 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 Syn|Hyper declarer bridge player, hand a card player in a game of bridge |
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