Word Meanings - CONTRACTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• PRICE
  to buy, OI. renim I sell. Cf. Appreciate, Depreciate, Interpret, 1. The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale;
• BARGAINER
  One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• SCALEBOARD
  A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
• PRICEITE
  A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SCALEBEAM
  1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. 2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
• PERFORMANCE
  The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
• PRICELESS
  1. Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. 2. Of no value; worthless. J. Barlow.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• LARGE-ACRED
  Possessing much land.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SCALENOHEDRON
  A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.