farm out
verb
farmed out; farming out; farms out
1
: to turn over for performance by another usually under contract
farm out a job
2
a
: to put (someone, such as a child) into the hands of another for care
b
: to send (an athlete, such as a baseball player) to a farm team
3
: to exhaust (land) by farming especially by continuously raising one crop
Examples of farm out in a Sentence
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The basic idea of farming out postal operations and allowing private players to pocket the savings is a solid one, but only if the postage discounts correspond to actual savings.
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David Williams, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
Nine out of 10 of the farms out of business by 2022 made less than $1,000 for the entire year.
—The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
In the 1970s, Washington tried farming out the job of regional security to local contractors, relying on Iran and Saudi Arabia to keep oil supplies flowing.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The training job might even be farmed out to distributors who sell wine to restaurants.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
Most of that daily work is farmed out to an obscure government agency known as the Administrative Office.
—Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
The issues are job protection and work jurisdiction, according to the union, which alleges WTTW is trying to farm out their long-standing technical duties to news producers and nonunion personnel.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
Opponents of an expansion point to cases of U.S. workers replaced by H-1B visa holders, and research suggesting thousands of H-1B workers fill lower-paying technology jobs and are farmed out by staffing firms to tech companies great and small, undercutting tech-industry wages.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Photograph: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Lyons has expanded his family’s farming operation over the past several decades, stretching his nut orchards and dairy farms out across thousands of acres on the west side of the valley.
—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
David Williams, The Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2024
Nine out of 10 of the farms out of business by 2022 made less than $1,000 for the entire year.
—The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
In the 1970s, Washington tried farming out the job of regional security to local contractors, relying on Iran and Saudi Arabia to keep oil supplies flowing.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
The training job might even be farmed out to distributors who sell wine to restaurants.
—Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
Most of that daily work is farmed out to an obscure government agency known as the Administrative Office.
—Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
The issues are job protection and work jurisdiction, according to the union, which alleges WTTW is trying to farm out their long-standing technical duties to news producers and nonunion personnel.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 21 Mar. 2022
Opponents of an expansion point to cases of U.S. workers replaced by H-1B visa holders, and research suggesting thousands of H-1B workers fill lower-paying technology jobs and are farmed out by staffing firms to tech companies great and small, undercutting tech-industry wages.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2024
Photograph: Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images Lyons has expanded his family’s farming operation over the past several decades, stretching his nut orchards and dairy farms out across thousands of acres on the west side of the valley.
—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
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“Farm out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farm%20out. Accessed 1 May. 2024.
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