Contractor vs. Agent

Difference Between Contractor and Agent

Contractornoun

A person or company that builds or improves buildings.

Agentnoun

One who exerts power, or has the power to act

Contractornoun

A person or company that performs specific tasks like electrical or plumbing work in construction projects.

Agentnoun

One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him/her; someone entrusted to do the business of another

Contractornoun

A person or company hired to maintain existing facilities like air conditioning systems, groundskeeping, etc.

Agentnoun

A person who looks for work for another person

Contractornoun

A person hired to do a job on a business contract, as opposed to a permanent employee.

Agentnoun

Someone who works for an intelligence agency

Contractornoun

someone (a person or firm) who contracts to build things

Agentnoun

An active power or cause or substance; something which has the power to produce an effect

Contractornoun

the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps

Agentnoun

(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.

Contractornoun

(law) a party to a contract

Agentnoun

(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".