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.
More significantly, the many companies which benefit from subcontracted work would lose out as well.
For instance, it is presently understood that more than one-third of the expenditure on the project will be subcontracted to foreign suppliers.
The work to be subcontracted will be specified at a later stage.
It seems that half the labour force is subcontracted.
A number of the components were to be subcontracted here, and we would have received considerable income from the licence fees.
No internal audit work is subcontracted to private firms.
In the last case all but about $3 million of the work has been subcontracted to industry.
If the business is a concentrated high-tech producer and the selling is subcontracted, there will be infinitely fewer key employees.
