subcontract
pronunciation
How to pronounce subcontract in British English:
UK [ˌsʌbkənˈtrækt]
How to pronounce subcontract in American English:
US [ˌsʌbˈkɑntrækt]
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- Noun:
- a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract
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- Verb:
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract
Word Origin
- subcontract (n.)
- also sub-contract, "contract for carrying out all or part of a previous contract," 1817, from sub- + contract (n.). As a verb from 1828 (in Shakespeare it means "be betrothed again"). Related: Subcontracted; subcontracting.
Example
- 1. The middle classes tend to hire decoration companies , which subcontract to whichever construction firm pays the best kickbacks .
- 2. It is perfectly legal for an approved auditor to subcontract the work to local accountants in china or elsewhere .
- 3. To do so he used another peer-to-peer website to subcontract the job of assessing creditworthiness to a number of ordinary people .
- 4. Calculating the correct share is complicated by " ali baba " companies , in which malay equity holders subcontract the work to chinese firms .
- 5. Jing kim , a beijing-based businessman , claims that he has helped a number of companies to subcontract animation work from 500 artists at sek studio in pyongyang .