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Contract out   /kˈɑntrˌækt aʊt/   Listen
Contract out

verb
1.
Assign a job to someone outside one's own business.
2.
Refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use.






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"Contract out" Quotes from Famous Books



... ZIDAR said, required extensive editing and project staff found themselves considering alternatives, including rekeying and/or creating abstracts or summaries of texts. NAL reckoned costs at $7 per page. By way of contrast, Ricky ERWAY explained that American Memory had decided from the start to contract out conversion to external service bureaus. The criteria used to select these contractors were cost and quality of results, as opposed to methods of conversion. ERWAY noted that historical documents or books often do not lend ...
— LOC WORKSHOP ON ELECTRONIC TEXTS • James Daly



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