contract out

1. 1.

   assign a job to someone outside one's own business

   Broadersign
2. 2.

   refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use

   Antonymscontract in

   Broaderrefuse

Questions about contract out

What does contract out mean?

contract out means "assign a job to someone outside one's own business". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is the opposite of contract out?

The recorded antonyms are contract in.

Is contract out a common word?

contract out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.