to farm out
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4.9
- phrasal verb
- /fɑrm aʊt/
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- Some pieces went to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, others to SLAC itself; some were farmed out to the University of California-Riverside.
Are artists going to basically farm out their creativity to these these AI programs?
- Are artists going to basically farm out their creativity to these these AI programs?
- They're going to be farmed out to whoever, whoever has the biggest audience and is the most relatable.
- And what we have found is that RB corporations farm it out to their actual staff.
- That would be an interesting question for somebody who does like, yeah, yeah, who's farming out the well, what if we were to say is love good or bad?
Examples
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The company decided to farm out its IT services to a specialized firm to save costs.
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I frequently farm it out if I have to because I'm not awesome at it and my results are frequently substandard for me, but I can do it if I have to.
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I offered to farm the work out to another writer for a lower rate.
Blog text (10) -
Mr. King farms out that kind of work.
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Anyway, we farmed out the contracts and went into production almost immediately.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Mechanical Turk service allows developers to farm out simple tasks to human participants.
Blog text (20) -
You don't need to do every single thing because Steven is able to farm that out to other people that are competent and and good at what they do.
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As local authorities drive down costs, social workers and service users face uncertain futures when services are farmed out to non-profit organizations and profit-making companies.
Academic text (2011) -
So that is work that I think can be farmed out productively to the GAISA library staff rather than me concentrating on it.
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His signature Obamacare achievement was farmed out to Reid and Pelosi.
Blog text (7)
Synonyms
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5.3
To hire another company to do work your company usually does
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5.9
To hire another company to do part of a contract you must do
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4.2
Pay an outside company to do work instead of hiring staff
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3.8
Get a professional to do a job for you
To hire another company to do work for you
How Delegated
65
5.3
7
4.9
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3.7
487
2.7
- Informal
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5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The overall meaning 'to contract work to someone else' is not directly and literally derivable from 'farm' (to cultivate/manage a farm) and 'out' (away); the verb is a metaphorical extension where 'farm' suggests delegating or handing work off and 'out' signals externalization. This metaphorical usage is partially guessable (the particle 'out' often marks transfer), but the specific sense 'outsource/contract' is not fully predictable for a B1 learner without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrasal verb farm out may come from an old farming picture: a farmer would farm work out by sending jobs or animals to other people to look after. So farm out means 'to arrange for someone else to do the work'.