local contractor

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local
adjective
uk
/ˈləʊ.kəl/us
/ˈloʊ.kəl/
from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of ...
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contractor
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈtræk.tər/us
/ˈkɑːn.træk.tɚ/
a person or company that arranges to supply materials or workers for building or for ...
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(Definition oflocalandcontractorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflocal contractor

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The other advocate was alocalcontractorwho had his eye on the building contract.
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If we have competition in the bigger centres we shall strengthen the finances of thelocalcontractorand clip the profits of the bigger companies.
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Anotherlocalcontractorwho wrote to me is owed almost £12,000, which has accumulated over 14 months.
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The balance was sold to alocalcontractorwho was responsible for taking it away afterwards.
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Thatlocalcontractorwill be free, as we all know, to carry out the contract and operate with profit always as his prime objective.
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It uses alocalcontractorwho charges £1 per trolley.
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The same problem might well recur when a local authority found that a service provided by alocalcontractorwas inefficient and inadequate.
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No, this excuse of the failure of thelocalcontractorsounds rather "phoney" to me.
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In the circumstances it was natural that we should look to alocalcontractorto undertake the responsibility for the maintenance of this establishment.
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It is important thatlocalcontractorpharmacists can advise on local pharmaceutical issues which they know better than hospital or industrial pharmacists.
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The property includes an eight bedroom one-story farm workers quarters, too, that was designed and built by alocalcontractorin 1936 for $6,000.
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Rather than hire an architect, in the custom of the time they designed it themselves and relied on alocalcontractorto erect it.
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Alocalcontractorbegan the house late that year and finished it in 1875.
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Garber persuaded alocalcontractorto donate any excess cement remaining aboard his trucks at the end of the workday.
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The cost of the work, the risks of the construction techniques employed, the whims of the mountain weather, the relations with thelocalcontractorare all carefully detailed.
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He was alocalcontractor.
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A further 0.14 of sheep treated received spray applications in a mobile spray facility operated by local contractors.
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While these schemes will provide little work for local contractors because the schemes are so vast, they will certainly stimulate substantial local employment.
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There was only one condition made, which was that in the case of wiring the corporation should employ the local contractors to do the work.
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They are environmentally essential and their construction could provide work for local contractors.
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