farm out | Idiomator

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic,business)Tosubcontract(a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; tooutsource.Near-synonym:sub out1911,Upton Sinclair,The Machine, act II:These companies are simply paper companies . . . theyfarm outthe contracts to the real builders.1977December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number26, page10:The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacquifarmed outher talents to fourseparategay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.2009January 5,Mark Thompson, “Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan”, inTime:The U.S. military had hoped tofarm outthe Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.

Examples:

EN: Oh, what a life on that farm out in Minnesota.
ES: Qué vida tuve en aquella granja en Minnesota.
EN: - Yeah, and in a few years' time he'll be buying a farm out in New Jersey, just like Martha and me.
ES: Y en algunos años, comprarán una granja. - Como Marta y yo.
EN: Charlie Howard bought a stock farm out there. He could use Shawn.
ES: Charlie Howard compró ganado ahí, Shawn podría serle útil.
EN: If they just leave us alone, we'll make a farm out of this yet.
ES: Si nos dejan en paz, convertiremos esto en una granja.
EN: It's death to farm out here.
ES: Se matan a trabajar, en las granjas, por aquí.
EN: I farm out pieces to men more brilliant than I. I say:
ES: Encargo piezas a otros más inteligentes.
EN: Are you going to have a whole pig farm out here in the woods?
ES: ¿Vas a tener una granja de cerdos aquí en el bosque?
EN: Told them Mike came to farm out a surveillance job this morning.
ES: Que Mike vino a discutir un trabajo.
EN: My er... parents have a farm out there.
ES: Mis... padres tienen una granja allá.
EN: Look, Larry, can you farm out all the contact numbers from the Advice Centre?
ES: Mira, Larry, ¿puedes chequear todos los números de contacto del Centro?
EN: They got a farm out in Abilene.
ES: Tienen una granja en Abilene.
EN: Well, there used to be a dairy farm out here somewhere.
ES: Bueno, por aquí había una granja.
EN: Say, "Right arm farm out."
ES: Di: "Brazo derecho granja fuera".
EN: Right arm farm out!
ES: ¡Brazo derecho granja fuera!
EN: This will take Tweedy's farm out of the Dark Ages and into full-scale automated production.
ES: Esto sacará a la Granja Tweedy de sus días oscuros hacia la producción automatizada a gran escala.

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