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# contractor

«contractor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person or company paid to do a particular job…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a contractor, contractors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A contractor is a person or company paid to do a particular job, especially building or repair work, under an agreement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#m1)

2) A contractor is a worker hired for a job for a set time rather than as a regular employee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life contractors build houses, fix roofs and lay roads. In maths problems a contractor often charges a price per hour or per day, or several contractors share the work. Phrases: building contractor, hire a contractor, private contractor.

### examples

- The contractor is building a new garage next door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x1)
- We hired a contractor to fix the leaking roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x2)
- The contractor charges 40 dollars an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x3)
- Two contractors finished the fence in three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x4)
- My aunt works as a contractor for a computer company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x5)
- The contractor showed us a plan before he started. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/#x6)

### note

Countable: a contractor, contractors. It ends in -or, not -er. A contractor is not the same as a contract (the agreement). In maths: cost = rate × hours; if several contractors work together, the job usually takes less time.

### In the corpora

- ["Private military contractor" is the official name for a hired soldier, a mercenary.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contractor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/contractor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.