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: --
The plane maker wants flexibility to subcontract overseas as part of its cost-cutting efforts.
If it is a large contract, the consultant may subcontract parts of it.
subcontract sth (out) to sb Most of the work has been subcontracted out to another company.
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.
Custom differed considerably throughout the country, but in most locations it was based on some form of subcontract.
Granovetter (1992a, b), on the contrary, holds that subcontracting is not an empirical intermediate between internal organisation of firms and pure market relations.
Although the number of journeymen was limited formally to three per tapestry master, the number of other employees was unrestricted and various forms of subcontracting were used.
If not, how else can fraud and efficient and effective processing of data be enabled in a world where government is complex and it subcontracts work to commercial partners?
Slightly more speculative was a master craftsman who might contract for his trade tasks, to supply materials and their transport, and also to subcontract with other trades for their output.
The investigators subcontracted with a marketing and opinion research company that identified controls using a random digit dialing procedure.
Inspectors searched out lapses in service, and they vigorously regulated subcontracting among stage companies.
Following this, one subcontractor is issued a letter of intent for award of subcontract (while the other participants may receive a fixed reimbursement).
