subcontract

Universal Words verb, noun verb ~ sth (to sb) to pay a person or company to do some of the work that you have been given a contract to do: [VN, VNtoinf] We subcontracted the work to a small engineering firm. * We subcontracted a small engineering firm to do the work. subcontracting noun [U] noun a contract to do part of the work that has been given to another person or company: subcontract work * a government subcontract