farm out
See also: farmout
English
editPronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
editfarm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)
- (transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
- 1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, act II:
- These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.
- 2009 January 5, Mark Thompson, “Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan”, in Time:
- The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.
Derived terms
edit- farmout (noun)