farm out

英 [fɑːm aʊt]

美 [fɑːrm aʊt]

出租…; 把…寄托或寄养出去

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 外包出;分包
  If you say that someonefarms outwork, especially work that you would normally expect them to do themselves, you mean that they give it to other people to do.
  1. The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal staffs to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms...
     这一举措符合让公司的法律专员在单位内部做更多的工作，而不是将工作分包给律师事务所的趋势。
  2. We can take advantage of new technology more quickly by farming out computer operations...
     把计算机业务分包出去，我们就可以更快地利用新技术。
  3. They've tended to farm out work to consultants.
     他们经常把业务分包给顾问。

英英释义

verb

• grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee
  1. We rent out our apartment to tourists every year
  2. He hired himself out as a cook
  Synonym:hire outrent out
• arranged for contracted work to be done by others
  Synonym:subcontractjob

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