contracting business

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meaningsofcontractandbusiness

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contract
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.trækt/us
/ˈkɑːn.trækt/
a legal document that states and explains a formal agreement between two different people or groups, or the ...
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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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(Definition ofcontractandbusinessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The private electricalcontractingbusinesshas continued to expand in parallel with the general development of nationalisation.
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A farm worker, or the younger son of a farmer, may move from working for a farmer into the agriculturalcontractingbusiness.
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The amendment would affect not merely issues affecting the civilcontractingbusiness.
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I declare an interest as one who has built up an electricalcontractingbusinesswhich is listed among the 10 largest in the industry.
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There are many question marks over the companies which are involved in contract cleaning, contract catering and other forms ofcontractingbusiness.
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In the moderncontractingbusiness, very often one contractor makes the contract but a number of others carry it out.
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Edmunds division farmers have now invested enough in driers, in big storage bins, and in bulk handling, to be able to cope with the whole forwardcontractingbusiness.
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In 1990, he started a heavy equipmentcontractingbusinessspecializing in soil conservation work.
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Two more major housing acquisitions followed, both divisions of contractors seeking to focus on their corecontractingbusiness.
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He was employed as a salesman for acontractingbusiness.
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He was very interested in lorries, and when he left school, he started working for his father'scontractingbusinessdelivering agricultural material in the region.
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He subsequently established his own electricalcontractingbusinessand later worked in footwear distribution.
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He developed acontractingbusinesswith convict labour, supplemented by hiring wage-earning tradesmen.
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Over the next 20 years, he built up a sizablecontractingbusinessthat specialized in railroad and highway building.
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The soundcontractingbusinessalso designed and used wedge-shaped monitor speakers on stage for artists to hear themselves.
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He engaged in banking and in the generalcontractingbusiness.
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In his early twenties, he entered thecontractingbusiness.
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He set up his owncontractingbusinessand proceeded to accomplish some major pieces of work.
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