outsource
outsource — verb
1. to hire another business to handle a job or service instead of using your own wo
to hire another business to handle a job or service instead of using your own workers.
The bakery outsourced its website design to a small studio.
pattern: outsource + object + to + provider
By winter, the hospital had outsourced night cleaning to local workers.
The bike company outsources helmet production to a factory in Vietnam.
When payroll errors piled up, the chain outsourced instead of rebuilding its payroll team.
Customer calls were outsourced to a team in Tainan last month.
- contract out
a close everyday business phrase, often used for a specific job or service
- subcontract
used especially when one company already has the main contract and passes part of the job to another
- offshore
narrower, because it stresses sending the work to another country
- insource
to bring work back inside the company instead of using an outside provider
- keep in-house
everyday phrase for continuing to do the work within your own organization
文法句型
outsource + work/service/task
outsource + something + to + company/provider
be outsourced to + provider/place
用法筆記
Most often takes business tasks or services as its object, such as payroll, cleaning, or customer support, and often adds 'to' before the outside company. Intransitive use is also common when the task is already clear from context.