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
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