What's the difference between constructor and contractor?

Constructor


Definition:

  • (n.) A constructer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Capito replaces Jonathan Neale in a reshuffle at the British constructor, with the latter losing his spot on the racing team.
  • (2) While EDF, the constructor, says the project is a “big opportunity for UK steel” and there is an “expectation” that a large proportion will come from the UK, everything is subject to a competitive process.
  • (3) Blood samples from rats and hamsters exposed to automotive engine exhausts in the Committee of Common Market Automobile Constructors long-term inhalation study at Battelle-Geneva were analysed for the levels of 2-hydroxyethylvaline (HOEtVal) and 2-hydroxypropylvaline (HOPrVal) in hemoglobin (Hb).
  • (4) McLaren scored only 27 points last year as their renewed relationship with Honda failed to deliver on their successes in the late 1980s and early 1990s which saw the British constructor win four consecutive driver and team championships.
  • (5) The inquiry has previously heard evidence of tens of thousands of dollars in payments from Victorian-based building company Winslow Constructors to the Victorian branch that were described as “membership fees” for employees.
  • (6) The emphasis was not on the predetermined responses and verbal meanings of the test constructor, but the language and mode of perceiving, organizing, and responding of the individual to the problems presented to him.
  • (7) The mathematical operations of test constructors may be extraordinarily brilliant; the possibilities of transforming psychic phenomena into abstract numbers create however, as many complications as the choice of social scales and standards we have to make for our measurements.
  • (8) The roentgen-anatomical study of the cervical portion of the vertebral column (fluorography and roentgenography in 2 projections followed by morphometrical treatment) was performed in 603 representatives of different professions: turners, milling-machine operators, craftsmen, mechanicians, jugglers, engineers and constructors.
  • (9) After five races Mercedes hold a 113-point lead over Red Bull in the constructors’ championship.
  • (10) It was taken over by Brawn GP, who went on to win the constructors' title in the current season, which ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
  • (11) It is an executive inquiry.” The commission focused on Thursday on a range of payments the AWU received from companies including Winslow Constructors, ACI Glass, Chiquita Mushrooms, and joint-venture road builder Thiess John Holland.
  • (12) The Woking-based team acquired only 27 points as their renewed relationship with the Japanese manufacturer Honda failed to deliver on their successes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when McLaren won four consecutive driver and constructors’ championships.
  • (13) Mercedes, 141 points ahead of Red Bull in the constructors’ race, have got that title sewn up too.
  • (14) The Japanese team have not won a grand prix since their debut in 2002 despite annual investment of over £180m and finished a disappointing fifth in the constructors' championship this season.
  • (15) The method was tested as part of one constructor's actual occupational health care programme, over a 2.5-year period.
  • (16) The theoretical and experimental analysis permits the optimization of the modulation index of the translator and the band-pass of the receiver and is realized through the recommendations to constructors.
  • (17) Jenson Button McLaren 2012 With McLaren challenging Red Bull for the Constructors’ Championship title in 2012, the team needed both of their drivers to work together, but the campaign was disrupted when Hamilton wrongly accused Button of unfollowing him on Twitter .
  • (18) "September's survey suggested that constructors are beginning to react with confidence to the more positive landscape for the sector, as job creation and input buying both rose at robust rates over the month."
  • (19) Improvement of operation methods that ensure reliability, climatic and mechanical stability, strength and other service qualities of medical equipment is now accomplished under conditions of intimate cooperation between constructors and manufactures, introduction of progressive norms and approaches for the provision and verification of the equipment operation qualities, building and employment of common test facilities.
  • (20) It pushed them up to ninth in the constructors’ table, ahead of Caterham and Sauber.

Contractor


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They had to be seen as the good guys, and not as either this administration or that administration.” Comey left the justice department in 2005 for Lockheed Martin, the largest military contractor in the US, and eventually an investment firm and Columbia Law School.
  • (2) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (3) Lloyds said it would achieve many of the job cuts through making less use of contractors and voluntary severance but admitted that some compulsory redundancies may be inevitable.
  • (4) Educated at Imperial College London, he trained at the contractors Freeman Fox, but in 1978 he turned freelance as a transport consultant, setting up his own firm: Steer Davies Gleave.
  • (5) The news website is run by journalist Carmen Aristegui, who in 2014 reported that Peña Nieto’s wife was purchasing a house with financing from a government contractor .
  • (6) The latter are enjoying the first signs of business picking up, according to a survey from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association.
  • (7) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
  • (8) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
  • (9) By July, the counter-intelligence contractor had collected a significant amount of material based on Russian sources who he had grown to trust over the years – not just in Moscow, but also among oligarchs living in the west.
  • (10) You will have to offer leadership and a sense of belonging to the civil service's lowly clerks and frontline staff in the Department for Work and Pensions, struggling not just with Iain Duncan Smith's fantasies of benefit rationalisation, but sharp contractors snapping at their heels.
  • (11) The agency is a lead bidder for eight regional contracts under the government's Flexible New Deal (FND) programme, starting next autumn, which will pay contractors according to successful job placements.
  • (12) They learned what green remodelling would mean when their contractor entered their house in a Minnesota GreenStar pilot programme for developing a "checklist of things you could do to make a house green", Lauri said.
  • (13) Uber drivers are employees not contractors, California rules Read more Like many Ethiopian immigrants in San Diego , Sahilu gravitated towards driving a cab because he didn’t speak much English and couldn’t get recognition for his educational qualifications – in his case, a chemistry degree.
  • (14) The latest title in the mega-selling military shooter series is set in a distopian near-future where a private military contractor has turned against the US and started a war against its old employer.
  • (15) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
  • (16) For his part, Brown created Project PM , "a crowd-sourced wiki focused on government intelligence contractors" to delve through the tens of thousands of emails taken from HBGary Federal's servers.
  • (17) If a contractor was involved in an incident which caused a fuss, they were whisked out of the country by their company.
  • (18) Problems at the privatised out-of-hours GP service in Cornwall, run by leading government contractor Serco, have led to a costly spike in attendance at A&E, according to board papers before the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (RCHT) this week.
  • (19) Previously, management of Australia’s onshore detention centres was contracted to the private contractor Serco, but the company’s contract is due to expire in July.
  • (20) Then, last summer, a 29-year-old contractor working for America's top-secret National Security Agency gave the project an extraordinary dramatic hook.