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put sth out phrasal verb ( WORK )
phrasal verb
Definition
[M] UK (US usually contract sth out) If you put work out, you employ someone outside your organization to do it
The council has put the job of street-cleaning out to a private firm.
(Definition of put sth out (WORK) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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