Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Redemptor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

REDEMP'TOR (ἐργολάβος). A contractor; like our own term, of general application for one who undertakes to perform any description of work, such as the building or repairing of a house, &c., for a stipulated amount. Cic. Div. ii. 21. Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 55. Liv. Hor.