How to Use subcontractor in a Sentence
subcontractor
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The same goes for any subcontractors that may have worked on the job.
—Gary Singer, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
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But some of the subcontractors don’t have the equipment needed to lift the heavy piles and then remove them.
—Brian Ballou, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Oct. 2017
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First, some of the cost of the tariffs may be shifted back to subcontractors in China.
—Mary E. Lovely For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
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A number of [subcontractors] have worked for more than 10 years with them.
—Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
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Dear Amy: My husband runs a small business in which some of the work is done by subcontractors.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2018
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Any permits pulled by the contractor and subcontractors will need to be pulled again by the new crew.
—Steven Sclaroff, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
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One subcontractor who spoke to The Verge was part of a contract worth millions of dollars that dates back to late 2016.
—Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2018
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That way, payments pass through the subcontractor and go back to the prime contractor.
—Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
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However, the waiver does not show what subcontractors were a part of the project.
—Tamia Fowlkes, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
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The city blamed the problem on a subcontractor of its service provider, Cincinnati Bell.
—Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 23 Apr. 2018
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The subcontractor turned both invoices over to the FBI.
—Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2020
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Both the alliance model and Falck‘s use of a subcontractor will be part of an amendment to Falck’s contract with the city.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
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Holabird believes the pants were made by a subcontractor for Strauss.
—CBS News, 12 Dec. 2022
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Some subcontractors for the government could be out of work and would not receive back pay.
—Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2024
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The names of the relative and subcontractor were not released.
—DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
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On large projects, the county sometimes awards a contract to a lead contractor, who in turn seeks bids for pieces of the large job and awards the work to subcontractors.
—Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 19 Mar. 2018
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The project contract grew to $24 million, and the indictment says Mitchell caused some of the money to be paid to the Harford subcontractor that were in part kicked back to Mitchell.
—Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 9 Apr. 2021
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Pinnacle Construction and the subcontractors on the project can be on the hook for damages if the project isn't finished on time.
—Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2018
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However, a subcontractor was owed that same amount at the time, the article states.
—Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2023
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Nonetheless, both the state and its subcontractors need to be held to a higher standard.
—Columbia Flier, 14 Sep. 2017
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But other companies have been able to nab some of the subcontractors who work for the company.
—Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
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That made her a city subcontractor, and thus her video footage city property.
—Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 22 Sep. 2017
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As a subcontractor on the I-4 job, Jason’s was paid by the state and its contractor to employ and pay many of those small firms for the interstate work.
—Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2021
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The business was a subcontractor on a deal considered by the city’s spending board in 2020, the board reported.
—Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
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Burton Scot hired subcontractors to work on the parking lot.
—Eric Heisig, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2019
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William Holden as the builder of the tower and Richard Chamberlain as his corner-cutting subcontractor (and son-in-law) share the guilt.
—John H. Dorr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 July 2024
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The subcontractor’s death was confirmed in a statement on its Facebook page.
—NBC News, 3 May 2022
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Perkins said he was forced to increase the fees to keep his subcontractors from leaving town for more lucrative jobs.
—Lisa J. Huriash, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2017
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Joseph also complained that one of his subcontractors failed to provide records to him.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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The station had been hastily reopened in 2022 – with Vucic and Orban in attendance – ahead of an election held that year, before being closed for more works by a Chinese company and its subcontractors.
—Christian Edwards, CNN, 2 Feb. 2025
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