WordNet
v. assign a job to someone outside one's own business
refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use [ant: contract in]
Usage examples of "contract out".
I guess I felt a little guilty about letting the contract out of my possession.
I informed him we would have to consult you, since you were funding her contract out of your own accounts.
He was aware the CIA still had an open-ended hit contract out on Bruce Rossiter, who had shot an American in a bar in Leopoldville because the man was staring at him.
I told her she could sell tritanium to the Federation, and we could contract out to supply warp generators and other goodies to folks all over the quadrant.
Ferengi courts did not distinguish between breaching a contract out of greed and breaching a contract because it was illegal.
And when you put a contract out on him, you really pissed him off.