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Definition of Subcontract
1. Noun. A contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract.
2. Verb. Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.
Generic synonyms: Employ, Engage, Hire
Derivative terms: Job, Job, Job, Job, Subcontractor
3. Verb. Work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract.
Definition of Subcontract
1. n. A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.
Definition of Subcontract
1. Verb. To contract out portions of a larger contracted project. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subcontract
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subcontract
Literary usage of Subcontract
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1906)
"248, There shall be inserted in every contract a clause prohibiting the contractor
from entering into any subcontract without the consent of the Council, ..."
2. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, Arthur Beilby Pearson, Hugh Fenwick Boyd, Charles Lyon Corbin (1884)
"... that when the Tho] t buyer at the time of the sale has neither made known to
Henderson, the seller the subcontract of sale, nor the specific purpose for ..."
3. Small Business Innovation Research: Program Solicitation (1993)
"... 2.6 subcontract A subcontract is any agreement, other than one involving an
employer-employee relationship, entered into by the primary recipient of a ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"And although the subcontract very plainly imports that it covers only a part of
the work of constructing the building, and that the Carlin Company was the ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"1327), which Is, In part, ns follows: "If at the time of the sale the existence
of a subcontract is mnde known to the seller, ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"(2) He may elect to abandon his subcontract, and in that •case he may recover as
damages against the seller (a) his loss of profits on the ..."
7. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California by California Supreme Court, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California, Supreme Court (1898)
"Where one who had contracted with the stute board of harbor commissioners to
construct part of the sea-wall, made n subcontract, agreeing that a residue of ..."
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