civilian contractor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcivilianandcontractor
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civilian
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪl.jən/us/səˈvɪl.jən/
relating to a person who is not a member of the police or the ...
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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 ofcivilianandcontractorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Civilians under aciviliancontractorare operated more efficiently.
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I am not talking about civilians under aciviliancontractor, but about civilians under the military.
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On sites earmarked for disposal, remediation is generally confined to the removal of ordnance and other defence-specific contaminants where aciviliancontractormight not have the relevant experience.
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Between 1854 and 1859, around 1,200 wooden huts were constructed by a localciviliancontractor, at a cost of 100,263.
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Eight coalition troops and oneciviliancontractorwere injured.
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The same principles are followed by the civilian contractors at the royal dockyards.
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The workshop has been certified to the same standards as are applied to civilian contractors who manufacture or repair equipment for the services.
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I should like this inquiry to examine most carefully whether we could economically extend the field where civilian contractors run units themselves.
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These delays, however, are due to the general shortage of labour and materials and not to the system of placing contracts with civilian contractors.
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They also provided military advice and assistance to civilian contractors undertaking clearance work.
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In some locations, where this is not available, arrangements are in hand for civilian contractors to provide a service.
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This regulation is applicable to all military aviators and those civilian contractors who fly under military flying regulations.
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When civilian contractors take over, the cost of running schools falls by one-half.
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I am asking that we should inquire whether civilian contractors could more efficiently take over flying training and technical schools.
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Any inshore surveys which civilian contractors may have carried out will have been few in number and small in extent.
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The figures, which include the employees of civilian contractors, vary from time to time.
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Civilian contractors have taken over complete tasks.
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In order to get round that, because they could not for the moment find anybody else, they adopted this device of borrowing him from civilian contractors.
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Secondly, it ignores the point that frequently when ships have been built by civilian contractors, they are brought into naval dockyards after trial for extensive modification.
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Who are these civilian contractors?
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