subcontractor

1. 1.

   someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor

   Broadercontractor

Other forms of subcontractor

plural

subcontractors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about subcontractor

What does subcontractor mean?

subcontractor means "someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor".

How many syllables are in subcontractor?

subcontractor has 4 syllables: sub-con-trac-tor. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /səbˈkɑnˌtɹæktɚ/.

Is subcontractor a common word?

subcontractor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with subcontractor?

3 words rhyme with subcontractor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.