OUTSOURCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outsource mean? 

• OUTSOURCE (verb)
  The verb OUTSOURCE has 1 sense:

1. obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out

  Familiarity information: OUTSOURCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTSOURCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outsource    ... he / she / it outsources   
Past simple: outsourced   
Past participle: outsourced   
-ing form: outsourcing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

Many companies outsource and hire consultants in order to maintain a flexible workforce

Hypernyms (to "outsource" is one way to...):

source (get (a product) from another country or business)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

A site designated as an establishment for outsourcing of human drug compounding.

(Human Drug Compounding Outsourcing Facility, NCI Thesaurus)