Usually means: Delegating tasks to external companies.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word subcontracting:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontracting: Merriam-Webster
  2. subcontracting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subcontracting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Subcontracting, subcontracting: Wordnik
  5. subcontracting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. subcontracting: Wiktionary
  7. subcontracting: Dictionary.com
  8. subcontracting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. subcontracting: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Subcontracting: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. subcontracting: Legal dictionary
  4. subcontracting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subcontracting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See subcontract as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (subcontract)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To contract out portions of a larger contracted project.
noun:  A portion of a contracted project that is contracted out in turn.
▸ Also see subcontract


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