A contractor is a person or company that performs work on a

contract A contract is an agreement that specifies certain legally enforceable rights and obligations pertaining to two or more parties. A contract typically involves consent to transfer of goods, services, money, or promise to transfer any of thos ...

basis. The term may refer to:

Business roles

Defense contractor A defense contractor is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a military or intelligence department of a government. Products typically include military or civilian aircraft, ships, vehicles, weaponry, and ...

, arms industry which provides weapons or military goods to a government *

General contractor A contractor (North American English) or builder (British English), 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 c ...

, 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 govern ...

, 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 oth ...

, a natural person, business or corporation which provides goods or services to another entity under terms specified in a contract * Private military company, 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 a person or business which undertakes to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract, and a subcontract is a contract which assigns part of an existing contract to a subcontractor. A general contractor, prime ...

, an individual or business that signs a contract to perform part or all of the obligations of another's contract *

Permatemp Permatemp is a United States term for a temporary employee who works for an extended period for a single staffing client. The word is a portmanteau of the words '' permanent'' and ''temporary''. It can also describe a semi-permanent structure or ...

, a person who works for an organization for an extended period via a staffing agency * Someone engaged in

contract killing Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, moneta ...

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) Contractor is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Behram Contractor (1930–2001), Indian journalist *Didi Contractor (1929–2021), German-American architect * Dinyar Contractor (born 1946), Indian actor and comedian * Hafeez Contrac ...

, 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''

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Films

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