farm out
Verb
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Verb
- (transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
- 1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, Act II:
- These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.
- 2009 Jan. 5, Mark Thompson, "[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1869519,00.html Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan]," Time:
- The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.
- 1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, Act II:
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