The word "contractor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or company that is hired to do a specific job or provide a specific service, usually for a set price and period of time. For example: "My contractor just finished remodeling my kitchen."
But the former NSA contractor has not been granted political asylum, which would have allowed him to stay in Russia permanently.
It was clear on Wednesday that pressure on the administration was likely to continue, as it was revealed that a major contractor involved in building the website told the government last month it did not have enough time to test its product.
The editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, had earlier informed government officials that other copies of the files existed outside the country and that the Guardian was neither the sole recipient nor steward of the files leaked by Snowden, a former NSA contractor.
Related: Edward Snowden says Australia's new data retention laws are 'dangerous' The Conservative manifesto had promised to strengthen the state's powers of surveillance, despite opposition to the already considerable powers revealed by Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor now living in exile in Russia.
A JIEDDO contractor even posed in 2009 as a US college student to call Afghan farmers, using the unauthorized cover story of working on a scholastic research project, to "ask about their crops and opinions on the Coalition war effort in that country".
Corruption went unchecked and the king remained silent over the Al-Yamamah arms deal, exposed in 2003 by the Guardian as a scandal implicating the British military contractor BAE Systems and Prince Sultan, Saudi minister of defence and also the crown prince.
The NSA itself came in for criticism for allowing Snowden, a Booz Allen-Hamilton contractor working for the agency, such extensive access to its systems, many of which were used for the surveillance programmes he exposed to the world.
And Leigh was from Phoenix, and she was really wealthy; her father was some hotshot Republican defence contractor.
As well as the alliance of Amec, Washington and Areva, the other bidders are a consortium made up of Serco, US contractor Bechtel and BWXT Nuclear Services UK Toshibaandnd Fluor; and CH2M Hill.
One contractor told Guardian Australia: "They were just makeshift beds.
The contractor took notes on what patients told her.
