Last Updated：2025/11/21

(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

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farm out

Source Word

farm out

Verb

idiomatic transitive

(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

Japanese Meaning

外注する、つまり業務、仕事、責任などを他の会社や個人に委託すること / 下請けに出す

When demand spiked, the company decided to farm out the assembly work to a nearby contract manufacturer.

需要が急増したため、会社は組み立て作業を近くの請負メーカーに外注することに決めた。

Sense（1）

(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

farms out

（ present singular third-person ）

farming out

（ participle present ）

farmed out

（ participle past ）

farmed out

（ past ）