What's the difference between project and subcontract?

Project


Definition:

  • (n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
  • (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
  • (n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.
  • (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
  • (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
  • (v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
  • (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.
  • (v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (2) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (4) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (5) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (6) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
  • (7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (8) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
  • (9) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
  • (11) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
  • (12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (13) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (14) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (15) 14 rats were studied for the nigro-reticular projection.
  • (16) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (17) The axons of A5, RPoOl and RaD neurons exhibit no lateral predominance in their spinal projections.
  • (18) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (19) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
  • (20) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.

Subcontract


Definition:

  • (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said he was working hard to ensure that the large companies that take on the task of helping the unemployed also subcontract some of this work to smaller, local voluntary firms.
  • (2) Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools.
  • (3) An investment corporation could be set up to spend the money, either by building generation capacity directly, or by subcontracting the work to existing operators.
  • (4) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
  • (5) He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship.
  • (6) Employers shouldn’t be misclassifying workers to keep labor costs down and they shouldn’t be hiding behind complex arrangements like franchising and subcontracting to skirt their responsibilities to their workers.
  • (7) Ed Miliband is said to have "subcontracted" responsibility for HS2 to Balls and moved Maria Eagle, an outspoken supporter of HS2, out of her job as shadow transport secretary, in his recent reshuffle.
  • (8) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
  • (9) Think instead of the thousands of workers at the base of football’s financial pyramid, the people in catering, cleaning, security and ground maintenance who are paid the minimum wage and, if their work is subcontracted, perhaps not even that.
  • (10) In a submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (11) In an extraordinary submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (12) The inquiry also heard evidence from three executives from Wilson Security, which is subcontracted by Transfield Services to manage security.
  • (13) In a letter to Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, the Whitehall cleaners argue that although they are subcontracted through a cleaning company, it is ultimately the responsibility of the government department to ensure a just wage.
  • (14) Yet the design of the HIP [home insulation program] facilitated installers subcontracting work to other entities or individuals.” Garrett said it eventually “became apparent” to him that the architecture of the scheme was insufficient.
  • (15) He blames producers who are subcontracting, or buying in chicken from China and then relabelling it as Thai produce before selling it on, just as British factories buy in poultry from the Netherlands and relabel it as British.
  • (16) Citizens UK welcomes that commitment, and calls on Manchester City to go further, to set an example and commit to ensuring that its subcontracted staff – such as those working for the catering companies which serve up major matchday profits to the football clubs – are also paid a living wage.
  • (17) I had never imagined that the justice minister, Chris Grayling, would in effect subcontract a fine repayment to a racketeer.
  • (18) Others will get involved with subcontracting [to them], although risk having their fingers burned by payment by results … there is also a big push to establish consortia and there is a push to establish partnerships with business."
  • (19) It subcontracts much of its work to a pool of 250 or so academics, businessmen, economists, retired civil servants and journalists.
  • (20) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.

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