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farm out

farm out verb: to subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.

Verb (1)

farm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
    • Near-synonym: sub out
    • Every Tehsildary is farmed out in villages to the Gours or head-men.c. 1800, Munro's Life, iii. 92
    Synonyms:
    sub out

Verb (2)

farm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)

  1. (Northern England) To clear or clean out; empty out.
    • Farm out the stable and pigsty.

farm out meaning in Tamil

farm out in Tamil

அடை

Examples of farm out in a sentence

  • These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, act II:
  • The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.2009 January 5, Mark Thompson, “Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan”, in Time:

Synonyms of farm out

Forms of farm out

third-person singular presentfarms out
present participlefarming out
past participlefarmed out
pastfarmed out

Origin of farm out

From farm + out.

From farm (“to cleanse, clean”) + out.

Words formed from farm out

Questions about farm out

What does farm out mean?
Farm out means to subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource.
What is farm out in Tamil?
Farm out in Tamil is அடை. See Farm out meaning in Tamil.
How do you use farm out in a sentence?
These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.
What part of speech is farm out?
Farm out is a verb.
What is the past tense of farm out?
The past tense of farm out is farmed out.

Words near farm out in the dictionary

  1. farm leagues
  2. farm market
  3. farm markets
  4. farm nigger
  5. farm niggers
  6. farm out
  7. farm owner
  8. farm runoff
  9. farm runoffs
  10. farm shop
  11. farm shops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: farm out (page history and authors); farm out (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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