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contract out

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to agree not to participate in something, esp the state pension scheme

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It could hire researchers or even contract out to universities.

Over the years, Indian outsourcing firms then contracted out their extra U.S.-based Indian workers to clients, leading to complaints from American workers that they were being replaced by domestic outsourcing.

Documentation provided to NBC6 shows that Lindsey arrived at the facility in the Big Cypress Swamp on July 6, employed as a corrections officer through GardaWorld Federal Services, contracted out to provide security.

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"No, I'm not happy with Boeing. It takes them a long time to do, you know, Air Force One, we gave that contract out a long time ago," Trump said in February.

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Union leaders said the impetus for the strike was a string of 44 labor law violations allegedly committed by the county, including retaliation and contracting out work that’s supposed to be done by union members.

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