Contract Out (Verb)
Meaning 1
Assign a job to someone outside one's own business.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The company decided to contract out the manufacturing process to a specialized firm in a nearby city.
- Due to lack of expertise, the IT department decided to contract out the project to a consultant.
- Many large corporations contract out their customer service operations to call centers in other countries.
- The city council voted to contract out the waste management services to a private company.
- The university decided to contract out the cafeteria services to a catering company.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
Refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use.
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The employee refused to join the union, instead choosing to contract out of paying the political levy.
- Under the new legislation, workers would be allowed to contract out of union political contributions.
- In the dispute over union dues, several workers opted to contract out of the political levy.
- The non-union employee decided to contract out of paying the union fee for its political use.
- Some staff members decided to contract out of the union's political fund in protest of its recent activities.