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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subcontract
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They subcontract out the repair and maintenance of their rental car fleet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A car rental company subcontracts out the repair and maintenance of its fleet, and focuses on renting.
▪ Carey repeated that the union would sign no deal unless it included limits on subcontracting and added more full-time jobs.
▪ Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals.
▪ Even supposedly essential functions are subcontracted out.
▪ Items with high added value would only be subcontracted if there were insurmountable problems of some sort in making it in-house.
▪ Not all the subcontracting goes abroad.
▪ The partners are now subcontracting more Airbus work to other companies and countries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subcontract

Subcontract \Sub*con"tract\, n. A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subcontract

also sub-contract, "contract for carrying out all or part of a previous contract," 1817, from sub- + contract (n.). As a verb from 1828 (in Shakespeare it means "be betrothed again"). Related: Subcontracted; subcontracting.

Wiktionary
subcontract

n. A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn. vb. To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.

WordNet
subcontract

n. a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract

subcontract

  1. v. arranged for contracted work to be done by others [syn: farm out, job]

  2. work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract

Usage examples of "subcontract".

We subcontract plumbers, carpenters, roofers, drywallers, but we do a lot of the work ourselves.

We toyed with the idea of setting ourselves up as a subcontracting job shop, specializing in working with hard to cut materials, but the same problem was there.

Damage done to the payloaders and bulldozers was minor, according to Francis Lane, whose company got a substantial subcontracting bid on the crosstown extension, but the demolition crane, valued at $60,000, is expected to be out of service for as long as two weeks.