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

• Sentiment is growing in the Bush Administration to end the legal protections that contractors like Blackwater have in Iraq.
• As with much of the occupation, the emergence of guns for hire among this contractor group was not part of the original plan.
• These private security contractors have been reckless and have compromised our mission in Iraq.

• declarer
• contractile organ

News & Articles

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• Contractor Was Working When Building Collapsed
  Lead contractor, Griffin Campbell, was on site the morning of last week's deadly building collapse in Philadelphia, but he didn't see or hear anything that signaled danger to him -- did not see what... Photo Credit: AP
  June 11, 2013 - NBC Philadelphia
• Government contractor Booz Allen says it has fired Edward Snowden after NSA leaks
  Government contractor Booz Allen says it has fired Edward Snowden after NSA leaks .
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Lawyer: Contractor not to blame in Philly collapse
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A contractor was onsite for a building demolition in Philadelphia last week but isn't to blame for the collapse of a four-story brick wall that killed six people inside an adjacent store, his lawyer said Tuesday.
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Sean McCormack in Forbes
  Kennedy's team will "begin establishing some baseline set of facts about these contractor operations" and report back to Rice, McCormack said.
• Joel Fitzgibbon in San Jose Mercury News
  The government will announce the details of arrangements with the contractor once mutual agreement on these matters has been reached, subject to any confidentiality issues,Fitzgibbon said in the statement.