contract out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Super users are contracting out their work to groups of “agents,” amping up their productivity.
The post said the school district was placing money into savings accounts and contracting out work to traveling psychologists or non-district special education support staff.
From Los Angeles Times
So the ESA is planning to contract out the job of developing the continent's first reusable rocket, having named a shortlist of potential companies.
From Barron's
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.
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