outsource

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If a company outsources, it pays to have part of its work done by another company:

Unions are fighting a plan by the university to outsource all non-academic services.

Some companies outsource to cheaper locations to cut costs.

to get work done by making a contract with another company to do it, often in another country, rather than in your own company:

The candidate talks about working-class issues, particularly about jobs being outsourced overseas.

if a company outsources work, it employs another organization to do it rather than using its own employees :

As part of a recent restructuring, Anglian Water decided to outsource some of its operations.

The decision to outsource had been made for financial reasons.

outsource sth to sth Today they unveiled plans to close two factories and outsource production to Eastern Europe.

outsource jobs/work The bank was attacked over plans to outsource 4,000 jobs to Asia.