subcontract
noun
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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They wondered, too, why the U.S., if it really wanted to ensure against detection, could not have subcontracted the job to a foreign pilot without a country, perhaps a refugee from a Communist satellite.
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