subcontract
IPA: sʌbkˈɑntrækt
noun
- A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
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Examples of "subcontract" in Sentences
- This brings in the concept of subcontracting.
- The initial solution was to subcontract the work out.
- DiC subcontracted the animation of these episodes to Nelvana.
- We now also subcontract militia work to private for profit armies.
- He began to subcontract construction to Merrysville and Santa Cruz.
- Dozens of firms moved to Hawthorne to acquire Northrop subcontracts.
- It was such a large job they had to subcontract a large portion of the work.
- The company was founded in 1999 to acquire marine construction subcontracts.
- Often they subcontract to contingency-fee firms who do the actual harassment.
- Construction of the prototype was subcontracted to Dart Aircraft of Dunstable.
- Middlemen broker clothing deals in South Asia, and work can be subcontracted multiple times.
- He enjoyed a "busy private life" and tended to 'subcontract' the fiddly bits like pastry-making.
- Business owners that team or subcontract to procure federal contracts are far more likely to win those dollars.
- These rights are meaningless if companies are allowed to transfer work, subcontract work, or send work overseas as punishment for workers exercising their legal rights.
- On the night of September 8, 2008, Santos was working as part of an inexperienced, unsupervised subcontract crew on a remodeling project at Wal-Mart store #2103 on Providence Highway in Walpole.
- Dad explained that he could do a lot of the finish work himself, the wood trim, carpentry, and painting—precisely the kind of labor that was most time-consuming, requiring a good eye and steady brush, and would be costly to subcontract.
- Interestingly, Boeing has a long-term subcontract agreement with Northrop Grumman for continued production of major sections of 747, 757, 767, and 777 airliners worth approximately $6 billion, depending on the total number of airliners delivered.
- 101.6 The term "subcontract" means any agreement of any kind (whether in the form of a letter of intent, purchase order, or otherwise) pursuant to which work, supplies, or services required for the performance of a prime contractor were furnished by a subcontractor (including a materialman) to a prime contractor of higher tier subcontractor of any agency at any time during the statutory period.