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

A phrase or expression in which the component words contradict one another, often unintentionally, or are claimed to do so when seen from a particular point of view.

(countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.

Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse. / Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent. / Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.

Contrarily

The opposite. / (logic) One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.

(obsolete) To oppose; to frustrate. / (obsolete) To impugn. / (obsolete) To contradict (someone or something). / (obsolete) To do the opposite of (someone or something).

An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.

(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed. / (obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.

(transitive, intransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen. / (grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.