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contractee

contractee

7.0
A person or organization that receives an agreement and must do what it says
  • noun
  • /ˌkɒntrækˈtiː/
  • Specialized
translation icon : contratista
  • Yet another symptom of the "civilization" disease, though, is a chronic tendency among its two-legged contractees to confuse mere words with the actual things spoken about.

Examples

  • The processing companies have also impacted the geography of tobacco production by encouraging their contractees to grow the crop in new areas from which production controls had hitherto excluded them, in order to spread the risk of weather, insects, and diseases (Bickers 2006).

    Academic text (2011)

  • As the contractee, we are responsible for completing the project on schedule.

  • Our contractee will let us know.

    The Killer Elite (1975)

  • With developing costs, the contractee had an outstanding bill of $14,000

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Obviously, the contractee had been farming the free film out to friends or selling it to customers and then dumping it on us.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The contract was signed, and now the contractee must begin fulfilling its obligations.

  • In our agreement, the contractee will deliver the final report by the end of the month.

Synonyms

contractor
vscontractee
354 3.9

A person or company hired to do work for others under an agreement

is the formal recipient who holds responsibility for fulfilling contract terms
obligor
vscontractee
  • Formal
1 8.2

A person or company required by a contract to meet a duty

is the receiving party who must fulfill contract duties rather than simply owing payment
promisee
vscontractee
  • Jargon
9.5

A person who someone has agreed to give something to or help

is the party who receives a binding contract and must carry out its terms

Surface Forms

contractee singular
contractees plural

Morphology

contractee = contract (transparent) = contract + ee

The suffix '-ee' regularly marks the recipient or beneficiary of an action, so 'contract' + '-ee' yields a clear meaning.

Etymology

The word contractee comes from contract plus the ending -ee, which shows the person who 'receives' something and appears in words like employee and payee. So a contractee is the person or organization who receives the contract and must carry out its terms.