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名詞

farmout (plural farmouts)

1. The act of subcontracting or outsourcing.
   • 1991, Congressional Serial Set, page 7:

     It also operates as a check on fraud, and, without impugning the integrity of the people involved in oil and gas lease farmouts, the potential for fraud inherent in H.R. 3152 does give me great pause.

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語源 1

From farm +‎ out.

動詞

farm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)

1. (transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

   Near-synonym: sub out

   • 1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, act II:

     These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.

   • 1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:

     The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.

   • 2009 January 5, Mark Thompson, “Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan”, in Time:

     The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.

派生語

語源 2

From farm (“to cleanse, clean”) +‎ out.

動詞

farm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)

1. (Northern England) To clear or clean out; empty out.

   Farm out the stable and pigsty.

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