The phrase "a former contract" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a contract that was previously in effect but is no longer active or valid.
Example: "The terms of a former contract must be reviewed before entering into a new agreement."
Alternatives: "an earlier contract" or "a previous contract".
In a little-noticed case last December, a former contract linguist for the F.B.I., Shamai Kedem Leibowitz, pleaded guilty to leaking five classified documents to a blogger.
Several of those highly classified intelligence-gathering programs were exposed via leaks from a former contract worker for the National Security Agency.
Since June 5th, the Guardian had been publishing top-secret digital files provided by Edward Snowden, a former contract employee of the National Security Agency.
The question was developed by a former contract employee of the company based in Itasca, Ill., that helps the state develop its test.
"They know how to make vehicles, but they don't know how to develop them".One of his employees is Alan Wall, 54, a former contract engineer at Chrysler who lost his job during the recession.
The witness, Ann Louise Bardach, a journalist who is a former contract writer for The New York Times, testified on Thursday that Luis Posada Carriles admitted during interviews in 1998 that he had sent the fax to associates.
A FEW years after John McGowan, a former contracts negotiator at Hewlett-Packard, took early retirement in 2006 at age 59, a friend persuaded him to join the H.P. Agilent Retired Employees Club-Bay Area, one of more than a dozen H.P. retiree clubs in the United States and abroad.
Among his entourage was a teen-aged former contract killer named Cristian, whom he was rehabilitating.
"Suppose someone is 55 and he's worked all his life for Delta, developing what he thinks is a substantial pension," said Jack Blaz, a retired pilot and former contract negotiator for the pilots' union.
For reasons of liability and customer satisfaction, new contracts must have the same risk coverage at a better premium than the former contract offered.
The first one, by Gianfranco Rosi, is the testimony of a former sicario (contract killer).
