subcontract
[noun suhb-kon-trakt, suhb-kon-; verb suhb-kuh n-trakt]Law.
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- to make a subcontract for.
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- to make a subcontract.
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Origin of subcontract
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Contemporary Examples of subcontract
Then they subcontract, and that makes the process even more complicated.
Before that, in December 2011, it won a $691 million U.S. Navy subcontract for “combat and sonar systems” for submarines.
Historical Examples of subcontract
The subcontract was made with Sanderson, Sanderson got his own contract filed.
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How would you go to work to defraud the Government by filing a subcontract?
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I say you cannot fraudulently file a subcontract against the Government.
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The subcontract of Vaile shows that Vaile was to receive one hundred per cent.
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Another charge is that the subcontract made by Sanderson was filed September 18, 1878.
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subcontract
- a subordinate contract under which the supply of materials, services, or labour is let out to someone other than a party to the main contract
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- (intr often foll by for) to enter into or make a subcontract
- (tr) to let out (work) on a subcontract
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Word Origin and History for subcontract
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