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Farm out   /fɑrm aʊt/   Listen
Farm out

verb
1.
Arranged for contracted work to be done by others.  Synonyms: job, subcontract.
2.
Grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee.  Synonyms: hire out, rent out.  "He hired himself out as a cook"






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"Farm out" Quotes from Famous Books



... Deming of Hartford, Conn., Dean of the Association, was on hand to greet many of his old friends. After lunch we visited Mr. Stephen Bernath's farm nut planting, then the topworked hickory woods on Mr. Wm. A. Benton's farm out of Millerton. At the Benton and Smith Nut Nursery, also on the farm, the tour ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... young men's Christian associations, to give work to the poor of all nations; and lastly the Government Indian department, that has wisely called to its aid the American missionary, and the Quaker societies, to farm out the poor Indians? or, if the measures put forth by these admissible agents can raise the ambition and stimulate to self-reliance their beneficiaries, will you be good enough to show wherein the same means, which I claim to employ, ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... Government farm out the privilege of supplying the market with opium to the highest bidder, who seldom, however, imports many chests for its consumption; but what he does sell is usually at a very large advance on the prices paid for it ...
— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking

... farm out Scoville way. He's lived there most all his life. He used to make a right good living off'n that farm, too; but it's run down ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd



Words linked to "Farm out" :   hire, lend, employ, engage, loan, rent out



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