Synonyms of subcontracting

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.

Related Words

• contracting
• paying
• hiring
• placing
• recruiting
• employing
• partnering
• jobbing
• promoting
• retaining
• apprenticing
• assuming
• signing (up or on)
• engaging
• taking on
• rehiring
• enlisting
• laying on
• upgrading
• feeing
• reemploying
• reengaging
• keeping (on)
• scouting
• advancing
• headhunting

Dissimilar Words

• laying off
• firing
• dismissing
• discharging
• canning
• locking out
• furloughing
• sacking
• axing

Example Sentences

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