| 释义 |
farm out
transitive verb
1. : to turn over for performance (as a job or part of an operation) or for use (as a property or privilege) usually on contract or for some agreed payment to one not usually responsible for such performance or entitled to such use
< it is often desirable to farm out highly specialized operations >
< the candidate was willing to farm out a few votes to check the rise of the new party >
2.
a. : to put (as children or prisoners) into the hands of a private individual for care in return for a fee
< farmed out the baby with her grandmother and went to work in town >
< state wards are often farmed out to private families >
b. : to send (a professional athlete) to a farm team
3.
a. : to exhaust (land) by farming, especially by continued cropping under a monoculture system
< much of the foothills has been farmed out with tobacco >
b. : to drill (oil wells) on a piece of ground to the extent permitted by law, the terms of a lease, or circumstances |