Usually means: Delegating tasks to external entities.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word outsource:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. outsource: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outsource: Merriam-Webster
  3. outsource: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outsource: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outsource: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outsource: Vocabulary.com
  7. Outsource, outsource: Wordnik
  8. outsource: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outsource: Wiktionary
  10. outsource: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outsource: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. outsource: Dictionary.com
  13. outsource: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Outsource: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. outsource: Rhymezone
  16. outsource: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Outsource (labor): American-Britih Dictionary
  18. outsource: FreeDictionary.org
  19. outsource: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. outsource: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OUTSOURCE: Accounting Glossary
  3. outsource: Legal dictionary
  4. outsource: Financial dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. outsource: Netlingo
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. outsource: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outsource: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outsource: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (outsource)

verb:  (chiefly US, business, management, transitive) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

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