0 to pay someone else to do part of a job that you have agreed to do:
Most of the bricklaying has been subcontracted (out) to a local builder.
1 to pay an outside person or organization to do work that might normally be done within an organization:
subcontract sth (out) to sb Most of the work has been subcontracted out to another company.
If it is a large contract, the consultant may subcontract parts of it.
The plane maker wants flexibility to subcontract overseas as part of its cost-cutting efforts.
2 an agreement for an outside person or organization to do work that might normally be done within an organization:
Another organization provides IT services to the school though a subcontract.
This latter point suggests that logically the man or woman who led the group and subcontracted the labour arranged for the payment of the workers.
In other cases, they relied on subcontracting work, and in a sense, were parasites on the large factories.
Those who shirk the system risk both their standing in the community and the possibility of being cut off from future subcontracting opportunities.
The expansion of self-employment in recent decades appears to be an outcome of the rising trend in subcontracting.
Further, a search for efficiency has encouraged packages of work to be subcontracted instead of being undertaken by in-house general contractor labour.
Accordingly, subcontracting in network relationships is considered intermediate between internal organisation and market orientation.
These agencies in turn often subcontracted to private organizations to provide services.
Following this, one subcontractor is issued a letter of intent for award of subcontract (while the other participants may receive a fixed reimbursement).