contract out — phrasal verb Word forms contract out : present tense I/you/we/they contract out he/she/it contracts out present participle contracting out past tense contracted out past participle contracted out 1) [intransitive] British to agree by a written… … English dictionary
contract out — verb 1. assign a job to someone outside one s own business • Hypernyms: ↑sign, ↑contract, ↑sign on, ↑sign up • Verb Frames: Somebody s Somebody s something … Useful english dictionary
contract out — 1) PHRASAL VERB If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it. [V P n (not pron) to n] Firms can contract out work to one another... [V P n (not pron)] When Barclays Bank contracted out its cleaning, the new company was… … English dictionary
contract out — UK US contract out Phrasal Verb with contract({{}}/kənˈtrækt/ verb UK ► [I] to formally state that you do not want to be involved in an official plan or system: »Under a personal pension plan or stakeholder pension scheme, the decision of whether … Financial and business terms
contract out on — See a contract out on … English idioms
contract out — be released from a condition (in a contract, agreement, etc.) … English contemporary dictionary
contract out — Brit. choose to withdraw from or not become involved in. → contract … English new terms dictionary
contract out — trash collection is contracted out by the town Syn: subcontract, outsource, farm out … Thesaurus of popular words
contract out (of something) — conˌtract ˈout (of sth) derived (BrE) to formally agree that you will not take part in sth • Many employees contracted out of the pension plan. Main entry: ↑contractderived … Useful english dictionary
a contract out on — a contract that pays to have someone killed There s a contract out on Mike. The boss doesn t like him … English idioms
CONTRACT — (Heb. חוֹזֶה, ḥozeh), in general law theory a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, in terms of which one party undertakes for the benefit of the other to perform or refrain from a certain act. As such, contract is the main… … Encyclopedia of Judaism