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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Contractor \Con*tract"or\, noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
contractor
noun
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}]
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