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Farm Out (Verb)

Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee; "We rent out our apartment to tourists every year"; "He hired himself out as a cook".

Verbs of buying, selling, owning.

The company will farm out most of its customer service duties to a third-party call center in India.
They decided to farm out their lawn maintenance to a local gardening service.
The struggling startup was forced to farm out its core competencies to bigger companies just to stay afloat.
Her talent was undeniable, but she had to farm out her voice to a pop star who wouldn't even give her songwriting credit.
After struggling to keep up with orders, they decided to farm out their manufacturing to a larger factory overseas.

Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

The company decided to farm out most of its coding tasks to freelancers in order to save on personnel costs.
They decided to farm out the landscaping to a professional company so that they could focus on construction.
To increase production levels, the business had to farm out part of its manufacturing to another facility.
The advertising agency chose to farm out the graphic design work to a small studio that specialized in the field.
Due to a high demand for their services, the consultants had to farm out some of their projects to other contractors.