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A contractor is a person or company that performs work on a
contract A contract is a legally enforceable agreement between two or more parties that creates, defines, and governs mutual rights and obligations between them. A contract typically involves the transfer of goods, services, money, or a promise to tran ...
basis. The term may refer to:


Business roles

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Defense contractor The arms industry, also known as the arms trade, is a global industry which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology. It consists of a commercial industry involved in the research and development, engineering, production, and serv ...
, arms industry which provides weapons or military goods to a government *
General contractor A general contractor, main contractor or prime contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of ...
, an individual or organization responsible for the construction of a building or other facility *
Government contractor A government contractor is a company (privately owned, publicly traded or a state-owned enterprise)either for profit or non-profitthat produces goods or services under contract for the government. Some communities are largely sustained by governme ...
, a private company which produces goods or services for the government *
Independent contractor Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...
, a natural person, business or corporation which provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract *
Private military company A private military company (PMC) or private military and security company (PMSC) is a private company providing armed combat or security services for financial gain. PMCs refer to their personnel as "security contractors" or "private military ...
, an organization or individual that contracts to provide services of a military nature *
School bus contractor A school bus contractor is a private company or proprietorship that provides student transport services to a school district or non-public school. Of the 450,000 school buses operating in the United States, it is estimated that approximately ...
, a private company or proprietorship which provides school bus service to a school district or non-public school *
Subcontractor A subcontractor is an individual or (in many cases) a business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract. Put simply the role of a subcontractor is to execute the job they are hired by the contractor f ...
, an individual or business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract *
Permatemp Permatemp is a U.S. term for a Temporary work#Temporary workers, temporary employee who works for an extended period for a single staffing client. The word is a portmanteau of the words ''Permanent employment, permanent'' and ''temporary''. Ther ...
, a person who works for an organization for an extended period via a staffing agency * Someone engaged in
contract killing Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...


Films

* ''The Contractor'' (2007 film), an action film starring Wesley Snipes * ''The Contractor'' (2013 film), a crime drama thriller film starring Danny Trejo * ''The Contractor'' (2022 film), an action film starring Chris Pine


Other uses

* ''Contractor'' (1779 EIC ship), an East Indiaman launched in 1779 * Contractor (surname), a list of people with the surname *
Interval contractor In mathematics, an interval contractor (or contractor for short) associated to a set X is an operator C which associates to a hyperrectangle /math> in \bold^n another box C( of \bold^n such that the two following properties are always satisfied ...
, a mathematical operator * Firoze Contractor, a fictional character in the 2019 Indian film ''War''


See also

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Contract (disambiguation) A contract is a legally binding agreement between at least two parties. Contract may also refer to: Film and television Film * ''The Contract'' (1971 film), an Israeli comedy film * ''The Contract'' (1972 film) or ''Caliber 9'', an Italian crime ...
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