Definition of "outsource" []

• To send out (work, for example) to an outside provider or manufacturer in order to cut costs. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The second reason U.S. companies outsource is that our own government pursues policies that drive investment and job creation offshore: excessive taxes, needless regulations, lengthy permit processes, a decreasing supply of U.S. citizens with technical and engineering degrees, and a general governmental misunderstanding of how to support private-sector jobs."
• "That said, currently the biggest problem I have seen in all of the countries that people go to outsource is that the highly skilled workers job hop all the time."
• "One of the key drivers to outsource is that of demographics."