had subcontracted
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past perfectof subcontract.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Only one of the five workers was an Amap employee; the others worked for a company that had subcontracted the work, Italian news media reported.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2024
He was likely eligible for workers’ compensation, but the company that had been hired to do the roofing job had subcontracted it out to a smaller company, which subcontracted it again.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
He said that he owned about a hundred trucks and had subcontracted for Hikmat and the other awwal las contractors on KAF.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016
"No - not as far as I'm aware," Mr Osborne said, adding that Transfield had subcontracted out security services to another company called Wilson Security.
From BBC ● May 19, 2015
But this gets even more interesting in France, as she explains: Comigel had subcontracted its ready meal production to a factory in Luxembourg, Tavola.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2013