subcontract
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract
Types & categories
- contract hypernym
Related & opposite
- subcontract derivation
- subcontract derivation
Sense 2 verb
arranged for contracted work to be done by others
Types & categories
- hire hypernym
Related & opposite
- job derivation
- chore derivation
- job derivation
- job derivation
- subcontract derivation
- subcontractor derivation
Sense 3 verb
work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract
Types & categories
- do work hypernym
Related & opposite
- subcontract derivation
- subcontractor derivation
- contract entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontract |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontract |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | contract |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | job |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | chore |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | job |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | job |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontract |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontractor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hire |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontract |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | subcontractor |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | contract |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | do work |