Contractor

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A contractor is a legal term for one who enters into a binding agreement to perform a certain service or provide a certain product in exchange for valuable consideration, monetary, goods, services, even barter arrangements.
General Contractor (GC), ("prime" or "specialty" contractor) is the individual or group that oversees activities on a construction site, and who may perform the work for a client with their own employees and/or "sub-contractors".
The term "contractor" is also applied to any private company, such as a military contractor, or a school bus contractor, each of which provides products or services to a government.

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