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contract sth out phrasal verb
phrasal verb [M]
Definition
to formally arrange for other people to do a particular job
The government contracted out hospital cleaning to private companies.
(Definition of contract sth out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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