Contractor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contractor \Con*tract"or\, n. [L.]
     One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who
     covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who
     contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a
     certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a
     railroad.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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