How to Use subcontractor in a Sentence

subcontractor

noun
  • A number of [subcontractors] have worked for more than 10 years with them.
    Ryan Conner, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
  • 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
  • Holabird believes the pants were made by a subcontractor for Strauss.
    CBS News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • However, a subcontractor was owed that same amount at the time, the article states.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 21 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The subcontractor’s death was confirmed in a statement on its Facebook page.
    NBC News, 3 May 2022
  • The letter states that the subcontractor had not disclosed some results in a timely manner.
    Julia Cherner, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Union Pacific pays a subcontractor to hire people to salvage items left along the tracks.
    Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Boeing confirmed in a statement that a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the employee and the subcontractor.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 18 May 2022
  • Petsche’s roofing company worked as a subcontractor on the project.
    Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The company that obtained the city permit for the subcontractor, which itself had no role in the project, had its license suspended.
    New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The worker was a subcontractor for the Ohio Department of Transportation.
    Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 9 June 2021
  • All of the subcontractors and materials being used for these projects come from within the region.
    Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
  • The cartel members seem to treat the local police almost as subcontractors.
    Amanda Taub, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Just the previous week, a soldier was killed and an Ecopetrol subcontractor injured in a firefight with ELN combatants.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • At the second, a few guards from a security subcontractor scanned Drakeo’s Stinc Team crew with a metal detector and a drug-sniffing dog.
    August Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The subcontractor conceded in a letter to the county that this work had turned up no conclusive evidence of voter fraud.
    New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • The breach, claimed by the Lapsus$ group, originated from the laptop of an engineer employed by a subcontractor, which the hackers had access to between Jan. 16 and Jan. 21, Okta said.
    Dan Strumpf, wsj.com, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The lawsuit describes it as a quasi-public project that required at least 30 percent of subcontractors to be owned by women or minorities.
    Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 25 June 2023
  • Since Sullivan Solar hired a subcontractor, Cornillez-Ty now has a $6,000 lien on his property.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Sarah Richardson, a spokeswoman for the company, said Tuesday that De Jesus was working for a subcontractor.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
  • The subcontractor sued, and Boeing subsequently settled the case.
    Reuters, CNN, 11 May 2022
  • Who will do the installation: the company or a third-party subcontractor?
    Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Stadium spokesperson Luca Serra said the equipment, which belongs to a subcontractor, was wedged between a trailer and a fence.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Boeing also had a dispute with a subcontractor that was working on the jets’ interior.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 9 June 2022
  • Ragone also said Onaga and Jeffery were no longer working for the campaign subcontractor.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Officers confirmed with Home Depot that the solicitor works for a subcontractor with the permission of the business.
    cleveland, 26 May 2022
  • In the meeting, Knox agreed that council shouldn't routinely pick and choose which companies a prime contractor chooses as a subcontractor.
    Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 2 Mar. 2022
  • The nonprofit also serves as a subcontractor for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless on two multi-year contracts, also set to expire at the end of this year, totaling up to about $11.78 million.
    Saja Hindi, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2023

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