Usually means: Independent entity hired for specialized tasks.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontractor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subcontractor: Merriam-Webster
  3. subcontractor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subcontractor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subcontractor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subcontractor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subcontractor, subcontractor: Wordnik
  8. subcontractor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subcontractor: Wiktionary
  10. subcontractor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subcontractor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subcontractor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subcontractor: Dictionary.com
  14. Subcontractor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Subcontractor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. subcontractor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. subcontractor: Rhymezone
  18. Subcontractor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. subcontractor: FreeDictionary.org
  20. subcontractor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. subcontractor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontractor: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. subcontractor: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. subcontractor: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  9. Subcontractor: Legal dictionary
  10. subcontractor: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subcontractor: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A contractor hired by a general contractor employed by the contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.

Similar:
subcontractee, contractor, main contractor, general contractor, prime contractor, contractee, subsupplier, subtrader, outworker, contractual, more...

Opposite:
contractor, employer, principal

Phrases:
home subcontractor, more...

Adjectives:
electrical, sub, nominated, major, tier, concrete, particular, small, mechanical, unpaid, potential

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Similar:
subcontractee, contractor, main contractor, general contractor, prime contractor, contractee, subsupplier, subtrader, outworker, contractual, more...

Opposite:
contractor, employer, principal

Phrases:
home subcontractor, more...

Adjectives:
electrical, sub, nominated, major, tier, concrete, particular, small, mechanical, unpaid, potential

Colors:
    gray,     blue,     yellow,     orange,     green, more...



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