outsource

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ source.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtˌsoɹs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

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

1. (chiefly US, business, management) To transfer the management and/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.

   • 2020 April 8, “Network News: Varamis plans electric freight to carry light goods”, in Rail, page 17:

     Read said maintenance would be outsourced, with "positive discussions" held with two companies.

Synonyms

• farm out, subcontract

Derived terms

• outsourceable
• outsourcer
• outsourcing

Translations

transfer of business to a third party

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外包 (zh) (wàibāo), 委外 (zh) (wěiwài), 外判 (wàipàn), 外購／外购 (wàigòu) (purchase from outside)

• Czech: zadávat subdodavatelské zakázky
• Danish: udlicitere n
• Dutch: uitbesteden (nl)
• Finnish: ulkoistaa (fi)
• French: externaliser (fr), sous-traiter (fr)
• Galician: externalizar
• German: auslagern (de)
• Hungarian: kiszervez (hu), alvállalkozásba (ki)ad
• Icelandic: útvista
• Italian: esternalizzare, subappaltare
• Polish: zlecać na zewnątrz impf, zlecić na zewnątrz pf
• Portuguese: terceirizar (pt), externalizar (pt)
• Romanian: externaliza
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: externalizar, tercerizar (es)
• Swedish: outsource
• Vietnamese: thuê ngoài (vi)

References

• “outsource”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• courteous