to job
- verb
- /dʒɑb/
- UK
- They often job out their software development tasks to freelancers.
Examples
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To save costs, the company decided to job out the printing to a local firm.
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As part of the project, we will job out the landscaping to a professional service.
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As to editorial expertise, most major publishers job out their copyediting, line editing, and proofreading to the same experts available for hire to anyone.
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Synonyms
To hire another company to do work your company usually does
To hire another company to do part of a contract you must do
To pay another person or company to do work for you
Pay an outside company to do work instead of hiring staff
Get a professional to do a job for you
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
A joking way to say someone is not good enough to do something as a job
- Literature
A quality of staying calm for a long time despite great problems, like Job in the Bible
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A meeting where an employer asks someone who wants the job questions to see if they fit
A situation when a person no longer has a job because of company problems or a weak economy
- Offensive
A sexual act where one person uses a hand to touch a man's penis for pleasure
- Literature
A book in the Bible that tells of a man who suffers and God answers him
- Informal
A job many people want because it pays well, gives good benefits or brings respect
- Jargon
An ability a video game character has from their chosen role to do special actions
- Specialized
A computer used for one specific work task, like taking orders
- Specialized
A set of computer commands that tell an operating system which tasks to run
- Literature
A story from the Bible about a man who keeps his faith during great suffering
How Outsourced
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- UK
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Job comes from an old word gobbet meaning 'a piece', and to job something out is to give that 'piece of work' to someone else to do. That is why companies say they job work out to contractors instead of doing it themselves.