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outsourced

outsourced is the simple past and past participle of outsource.

Adjective

outsourced (not comparable)

  1. Obtained by outsourcing
  2. Having ones employment transferred to a third party

Meaning of outsource

Verb

outsource (third-person singular simple present outsources, present participle outsourcing, simple past and past participle outsourced)

  1. (US, transitive) To transfer the management or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
    • They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.

Questions about outsourced

What does outsourced mean?
Outsourced means obtained by outsourcing.
What is outsourced the simple past and past participle of?
Outsourced is the simple past and past participle of outsource.
What part of speech is outsourced?
Outsourced is an adjective.

Words near outsourced in the dictionary

  1. outsounded
  2. outsounding
  3. outsounds
  4. outsource
  5. outsourceable
  6. outsourced
  7. outsourcee
  8. outsourcees
  9. outsourcer
  10. outsourcers
  11. outsourcery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outsourced (page history and authors); outsource (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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