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subcontracted

subcontracted is the simple past and past participle of subcontract.

Meaning of subcontract

Verb

subcontract (third-person singular simple present subcontracts, present participle subcontracting, simple past and past participle subcontracted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
    Synonyms:
    farm out, outsource

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Questions about subcontracted

What is subcontracted the simple past and past participle of?
Subcontracted is the simple past and past participle of subcontract.

Words near subcontracted in the dictionary

  1. subcontrabass saxophones
  2. subcontrabass saxophonist
  3. subcontrabass saxophonists
  4. subcontract
  5. subcontractable
  6. subcontracted
  7. subcontractee
  8. subcontractees
  9. subcontracting
  10. subcontractor
  11. subcontractors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subcontracted (page history and authors); subcontract (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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