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Verb: contract out
  1. Assign a job to someone outside one's own business
    "The company contracted out its IT services to reduce costs"
     
  2. 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]