outsource
verb (used with object)
(of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
Example Sentences
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It has warned outsourcing facilities for repackaging the drug, telehealth companies for marketing the unapproved drug to consumers, and distributors for selling retatrutide to compounders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The prison - which has a maximum capacity for about 900 inmates - came under the control of another outsourcing firm Sodexo on 16 February 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
At the same time, the company has been streamlining operations, having previously completed the outsourcing of deliveries to grocery and convenience partners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Decades ago they started outsourcing to executive-branch agencies the task of nitty-gritty legislating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even some restaurant jobs, it seems, are not immune to outsourcing.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
