Usually means: Delegation of tasks to others.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word subcontract:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontract: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subcontract: Merriam-Webster
  3. subcontract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subcontract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subcontract: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subcontract: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subcontract, subcontract: Wordnik
  8. subcontract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subcontract: Wiktionary
  10. subcontract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subcontract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subcontract: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subcontract: Dictionary.com
  14. subcontract (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Subcontract: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Subcontract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. subcontract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. subcontract: Rhymezone
  19. subcontract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. subcontract: FreeDictionary.org
  21. subcontract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. subcontract: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontract: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. subcontract: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. subcontract: Legal dictionary
  5. subcontract: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subcontract: Encyclopedia

(Note: See subcontracted as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
▸ noun:  A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn.

Similar:
job, farm out, contract out, outsource, outskill, outtask, subdelegate, scale down, abbreviate, recontract, more...

Adjectives:
such, major, particular, sub, first, electrical, nominated, original, large, initial, second


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Similar:
job, farm out, contract out, outsource, outskill, outtask, subdelegate, scale down, abbreviate, recontract, more...

Adjectives:
such, major, particular, sub, first, electrical, nominated, original, large, initial, second



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