outsource
(of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.: Compare backsource.
to contract out (jobs, services, etc.): a small business that outsources bookkeeping to an accounting firm.
to obtain goods or services from an outside source: U.S. companies who outsource from China.
Origin of outsource
1Other words from outsource
- outsourcing, noun
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How to use outsource in a sentence
But if gendered Internet harassment is this urgent of a problem, why is Twitter outsourcing it to WAM!
If Twitter Won’t Handle Its Massive Harassment Problem, These Women Will | Samantha Allen | November 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe next day, Perdue was asked if he could defend the “outsourcing” charges.
The truth about his role in outsourcing jobs seems to be somewhere in the middle.
Another technique is the outsourcing of labor to lower paid foreign workers, the so called “techno-coolies.”
Silicon Valley’s Giants Are Just Gilded Age Tycoons in Techno-Utopian Clothes | Joel Kotkin | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt this point, she began marketing her designs as furniture and was outsourcing labor to produce them.
The strategy of outsourcing is based on the notion that maximum efficiency requires specialization that companies cannot achieve.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
British Dictionary definitions for outsource
/ (ˌaʊtˈsɔːs) /
to subcontract (work) to another company
to buy in (components for a product) rather than manufacture them
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