contractor

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things
noun the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
noun (law) a party to a contract

Borrowed from Late Latin contractor, from Latin contract-, stem of contractus + -tor. First attested in the 16th century.

JOHN WATSON, A Northern Contractor. — The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
Contractors Bill (1782), 110, 113. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
THE CONTRACTORS BEFORE THE KING 61. — Roughing It, Mark Twain

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