Verb: contract out
- Assign a job to someone outside one's own business
"The company contracted out its IT services to reduce costs"
- Refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use
"Some employees chose to contract out of the union's political fund"
Derived forms: contracted out, contracting out, contracts out
Type of: contract, decline, refuse, sign, sign on, sign up
Antonym: contract in [Brit]