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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But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Drawing on evidence she stated that the department had begun outsourcing its backlog, but that this was in its infancy.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
But she might care if he’s outsourcing his part of a team project to it, leaving her feeling uncertain about his ability to present his work in front of a client next week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
By outsourcing my habits to an app, I felt like I was more and more disembodied from my own well-being.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
He was too polite to say it—that he may already be my accountant, or rather my accountant’s accountant, thanks to the explosion in the outsourcing of tax preparation.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
