SUBCONTRACT Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

subcontract

verb

Definition of subcontract

as in to pay

to come to an agreement with another person or company to do part of a job that you have been hired to do Parts of the project were subcontracted (out) to specialists.

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Recent Examples of subcontract Crooks documents the ways North American cities have been pressured to subcontract garbage collection to private entities. — Literary Hub, 8 July 2026 The norm in the industry is for tour operators to subcontract everything from drivers and local transport to guides, but A&K has much more of its own staff, which allows for better quality control. — Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026 Content industries in the country are plagued by low wages, punishing hours, and subcontracting arrangements that push risk onto the most vulnerable workers. — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 7 May 2026 Echo was subcontracting, which meant long hours for thin margins. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for subcontract

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Benton County will pay $1,014,312 annually, Gentry will pay $195,140, Cave Springs will pay $165,500, and Decatur will pay $94,568.

— Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
As rocket launches increase, researchers are paying closer attention to this danger.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of pay

Verb

Where the Nigerian patient contracted Ebola remains unresolved.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Plus, Anthropic signed on to spend $30 billion on Azure and contracting as much as a gigawatt worth of additional computing power.

— Ashley Capoot,Jordan Novet,Annie Palmer,Lora Kolodny,Kai Nicol-Schwarz,Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of contract

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Jennifer Shuford, who had been Texas’s health commissioner, was part of a team hired to restore confidence in the agency.

— Dan Diamond, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
Spoelstra and May became even closer when the Heat hired his son, Jack May, as a video room intern a few years ago.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of hire

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BetMGM is offering new users a chance to place a bet and get $1,500 in bonuses if the bet loses when using promo code FOXNEWS.

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The integrated circuit In 1958, engineer Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments demonstrated an integrated circuit that placed multiple electronic components on a single piece of semiconductor material.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026

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