farm out

verb

farmed out; farming out; farms out

transitive verb

: to turn over for performance by another usually under contract

farm out a job

: to put (someone, such as a child) into the hands of another for care

: to send (an athlete, such as a baseball player) to a farm team

: to exhaust (land) by farming especially by continuously raising one crop

Examples of farm out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Meanwhile, insurers and reinsurers are continuing to farm out large chunks of their natural-disaster tail risk to the capital markets. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 9 June 2024 The streaming era farmed out those choices to a variety of platforms. —

Joel Mathis, theweek, 23 May 2024 The Los Angeles Times, a former sister paper to the Chicago Tribune, shuttered its sprawling 34-year-old downtown printing plant in March, farming out the work to the Southern California News Group in Riverside, nearly 60 miles away. —

Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2024 Yi also received assistance with worker’s compensation, which is not handled by Paramount Television Studios but is farmed out to a third party. —

Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for farm out

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