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subbing out

subbing out is the present participle and gerund of sub out.

Meaning of sub out

Verb

sub out (third-person singular simple present subs out, present participle subbing out, simple past and past participle subbed out)

  1. (transitive) To replace with a substitute: to substitute (something or someone).
    • It's this single word also that Dickenson's editors subbed out for the 1896 edition of her poems, rendering the line instead, “But sequence ravelled out of reach / like balls upon a floor.”2010, Kazim Ali, Orange Alert, page 183
  2. (ambitransitive) To hire a subcontractor (to complete a task): to subcontract (something).
    • Near-synonym: farm out
    Synonyms:
    farm out

Questions about subbing out

What is subbing out the present participle and gerund of?
Subbing out is the present participle and gerund of sub out.

Words near subbing out in the dictionary

  1. subbilocular
  2. subbimodule
  3. subbimodules
  4. subbing
  5. subbing in
  6. subbing out
  7. subbings
  8. subbituminous
  9. subblock
  10. subblocks
  11. subboard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subbing out (page history and authors); sub 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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