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The person who actually does the job you hired someone else for.
means A person or company hired by a main contractor to carry out part of a job under the original contract.
from Built from Latin-rooted 'contractor' (one who draws parties together into an agreement, from contrahere, 'to draw together') plus the prefix 'sub-,' meaning 'under' or 'beneath.' The word simply stacks a layer: someone brought in underneath the main contractor's deal, inheriting a slice of the work without ever meeting the original client.
- liability
- general contractor keeps the blame, delegates the work
- economics
- bids low, eats costs, prays for change orders
- chain
- can subcontract their own subcontractors, infinitely
- leverage
- last paid, first blamed