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Definition of "contract out" []

  • Refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use (verb)
  • Assign a job to someone outside one's own business (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "contract out" in a sentence
  • "Not only had he missed the target, he had alerted Two-Ton Tony that someone had a contract out on him."
  • "The length of fermentation is constant and not their problem anyway, since they contract out the production of the wash to micro-brewers—it used to be Flying Dog, but Flying Dog moved to Maryland and now it’s Oskar Blues."