0 past simple and past participle of outsource --
1 If a company outsources, it pays to have part of its work done by another company: --
Some of the work was outsourced for a period, and all staff have received appropriate training.
It has, effectively, outsourced some of its activities to the agency.
The majority of fair trade goods are obtained by outsourced services, eg catering.
Today, all external evaluation is outsourced.
First digital systems for sound calculating, outsourced first, then internally installed.
She complained that her husband did not do his share of household chores, many of which, she joked, have been 'outsourced', so that take-away meals are now routine.
Therefore, the evaluation service's role is a sort of mediation service between outsourced contract partners and the internal office partners.
Their developmental impact will remain limited and possibly transient, for these are the most routine and vulnerable of internationally outsourced service occupations.
