Definition
To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
Origins
From farm + out.
In Context
- "Near-synonym: sub out"
- "These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders."
- "The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass."
- "The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations."
Also Said As
- sub out