contractualize

Verb

contractualize (third-person singular simple present contractualizes, present participle contractualizing, simple past and past participle contractualized)

1. To represent, model or formalize an agreement, intent or understanding within a legal framework or contract
   • This approach would contractualize the East's very large numerical advantages in most types of major armaments in the area.1977, American Foreign Policy Current Documents, page 460
   • During the consensus-building stage, the program design unit identifies potential program partners and begins to formalize their role in the project and contractualize their contribution.2003, Ivo Imparato, Jeff Ruster, Slum Upgrading and Participation: Lessons from Latin America, page 157
2. To shift from hiring permanent employees to hiring temporary workers, especially those hired on a per-project basis (and thereby avoiding the need to provide legally mandated employee benefits).
   • […] Labor Day is just around the corner, hence, it is timely to examine the current and hot issues affecting the workers’ sector. One such issue concerns the matter of endos, contractuals and contractualized employees. / Endos, contractuals and contractualized employees do not enjoy full security...2018 April 26, Art Amansec, “Of endos, ‘contractuals‘ and contractualized employees”, in BusinessMirror
   • Unceremonious disappearance of Mina's city buses is the latest management scheme aimed to retrench and contractualize workers, according to drivers and conductors of the Mina's Transit Corporation.2002, Antonio A. Tujan, Globalizing Philippine Mining
3. To switch from providing public services by the government to contracting service providers in the private sector.
   • The advent of the phrase commercial-in-confidence has indeed sent shivers up the spines of numerous citizen groups and auditors general as moves to contractualize and outsource have gathered pace.2006, Graeme A. Hodge, Privatization and Market Development, page 112
   • As the 1980s progressed, it became clear across a variety of jurisdictions that neo-liberal governments were determined to privatize core state assets, contractualizing key functions and responsibilities, and defining the state's role as purchaser of services from a free market of competing...2006, Eugene McLaughlin, The New Policing