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Definition

To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

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Origins

From farm + out.

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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."
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Also Said As

  • sub out