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subcontratar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • outsource verb To pay an outside company or individual to do work that your own organisation would otherwise do itself, such as IT support, payroll, manufacturing or customer service.
  • subcontract verb To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.

Senses

subcontratar is used for these senses in English:

  • outsource (chiefly, US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
  • subcontract (ambitransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.

outsource — full definition

  1. verb To pay an outside company or individual to do work that your own organisation would otherwise do itself, such as IT support, payroll, manufacturing or customer service.
  2. verb In casual use, to get someone else to handle a personal task you would rather not do.

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