0 past simple and past participle of subcontract
1 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.
Prominent among these new forms is subcontracted production, which allows employers to bypass trade unions and circumvent restrictions in firing workers and lowering wages.
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.
The term 'freelance' is a cover: what we are really talking about here is a system of subcontracted labour.
Further, a search for efficiency has encouraged packages of work to be subcontracted instead of being undertaken by in-house general contractor labour.
These agencies in turn often subcontracted to private organizations to provide services.
The investigators subcontracted with a marketing and opinion research company that identified controls using a random digit dialing procedure.
Since after sales services can only be subcontracted to authorised repairers, a high level of quality and safety is guaranteed.
If the business is a concentrated high-tech producer and the selling is subcontracted, there will be infinitely fewer key employees.
