| 单词 | contract out |
| 释义 | contract out1. phrasal verb If a company contracts out work, they employ other companies to do it. [business] Firms can contract out work to one another. [V P n + to] When Barclays Bank contracted out its cleaning, the new company was cheaper. [VERB PARTICLE noun] ...the trend of contracting services out rather than performing them in-house. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for contractIf a person or group contracts out of a system or scheme, they formally say that they do not want to take part in it. [British] Employees can contract out of their employer's occupational pension scheme. [VERB PARTICLE + of] ...a deal which converts into a pay-as-you-go service unless you contract out. [VERB PARTICLE] contract out in British Englishverb (intr, adverb) British to agree not to participate in something, esp the state pension scheme contract out in American Englishto hire an outside contractor to produce or do Examples of 'contract out' in a sentence |
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