subcontracting

verb

present participle of subcontract
as in contracting
to come to an agreement with another person or company to do part of a job that you have been hired to do Parts of the project were subcontracted (out) to specialists.

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Recent Examples of subcontracting In 2024, Western intelligence officials started gathering evidence that gangs in Scandinavia were subcontracting local teen-agers to carry out Iranian directives. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026 Unite Here Local 17, the union that represents the 500 Target Field concessions workers, says Delaware North failed to bargain in good faith by subcontracting Minnesota Funding Initiative volunteers. — Aki Nace, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026 Content industries in the country are plagued by low wages, punishing hours, and subcontracting arrangements that push risk onto the most vulnerable workers. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 7 May 2026 Echo was subcontracting, which meant long hours for thin margins. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026 But anyone subcontracting tasks to AI is clever enough to imagine what might come next—a day when augmentation crosses into automation, and cognitive obsolescence compels them to seek work at a food truck, pet spa, or massage table. — Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcontracting
  1. contracting
  2. paying
  3. hiring
  4. placing
  5. recruiting
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  • Three Kentuckians have been hospitalized after contracting measles since officials confirmed an ongoing outbreak in Western Kentucky, according to information on the Kentucky Department for Public Health's website.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Sep. 2026
  • AGPhotography/Adobe Stock A North Carolina teenager has died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri that's found in warm freshwater, state health officials said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of contracting
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  • The massive cash injection of four years ago was much needed, but Barca will be paying it back and more over the next two decades.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • This 37% price cut gives backpackers, beachgoers, and closet rock stars an opportunity to capture surprisingly rich bass and all-weather resilience without paying standard retail prices.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of paying
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  • But incredibly, that failure actually paved the way for his return to the competition last season, with Benfica hiring him just weeks later.
    — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Restaurants and bars led hiring with 59,000 new jobs, and local government education added 42,000, largely reversing a dip the month before.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hiring
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  • California, home to the world’s largest tech companies, is placing more guardrails around social media and artificial intelligence as child safety concerns escalate.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Wednesday morning, volunteers rolled up their sleeves and got to work placing each and every flag one by one.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of placing
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  • Fenerbahce got in on the act by recruiting Nathan Ake from Manchester City and Greenwood from Marseille, bluntly unconcerned by the latter’s past.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • But the administration, led by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, has pushed ahead, recruiting bankers to help wield a loan authority that has swelled from $1 billion to $200 billion thanks to the recent Republican party-line tax bill.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of recruiting

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