farm out

Questions about farm out

What does farm out mean?

farm out means "arranged for contracted work to be done by others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for farm out?

Close synonyms include subcontract, job, hire out, rent out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is farm out a common word?

farm 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.