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subcontract

[suhb-kon-trakt, suhb-kon-, suhb-kuhn-trakt] / sʌbˈkɒn trækt, ˈsʌbˌkɒn-, ˌsʌb kənˈtrækt /
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farm out
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Subcontract employees were believed to have been at fault in two, the blasts at Arco and Phillips.

From Time Magazine Archive

Subcontract, sub-kon′trakt, n. a contract subordinate to another contract, as for the subletting of work.—v.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various