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contracted out

contracted out is the simple past and past participle of contract out.

Meaning of contract out

Verb

contract out (third-person singular simple present contracts out, present participle contracting out, simple past and past participle contracted out)

  1. To hire an outside service for a project instead of handling it internally; to sign a contract for provision of a good or service.

Questions about contracted out

What is contracted out the simple past and past participle of?
Contracted out is the simple past and past participle of contract out.

Words near contracted out in the dictionary

  1. contractarian
  2. contractarianism
  3. contractarians
  4. contractation
  5. contracted
  6. contracted out
  7. contracted out of
  8. contractedly
  9. contractedness
  10. contractee
  11. contractees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contracted out (page history and authors); contract out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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