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subcontractors

subcontractors is the plural of subcontractor.

Meaning of subcontractor

Noun

subcontractor (plural subcontractors)

  1. A contractor hired by another contractor (often a general contractor) and thus employed by that contractor rather than directly hired by the customer.
    Synonyms:
    sub

Questions about subcontractors

What is subcontractors the plural of?
Subcontractors is the plural of subcontractor.

Words near subcontractors in the dictionary

  1. subcontracted
  2. subcontractee
  3. subcontractees
  4. subcontracting
  5. subcontractor
  6. subcontractors
  7. subcontracts
  8. subcontractual
  9. subcontraoctave
  10. subcontraoctaves
  11. subcontraries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subcontractors (page history and authors); subcontractor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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