Definition of "farm out" [farm out]

• To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource. (verb)

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• "The managers farm out the drop-curtain to business men by the square."
• "It had been a minimum-security-type work farm out in the flat farmlands, but it was still a prison even if there weren’t any bars."
• "As a young boy, I don't think we talked about this before, we sharecropped on a farm out here in Chatham County."