farm out

英 [fɑːm aʊt]

美 [fɑːrm aʊt]

出租…; 把…寄托或寄养出去

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 外包出;分包
  If you say that someonefarms outwork, especially work that you would normally expect them to do themselves, you mean that they give it to other people to do.
  1. The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal staffs to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms...
     这一举措符合让公司的法律专员在单位内部做更多的工作，而不是将工作分包给律师事务所的趋势。
  2. We can take advantage of new technology more quickly by farming out computer operations...
     把计算机业务分包出去，我们就可以更快地利用新技术。
  3. They've tended to farm out work to consultants.
     他们经常把业务分包给顾问。

英英释义

verb

• grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee
  1. We rent out our apartment to tourists every year
  2. He hired himself out as a cook
  Synonym:hire outrent out
• arranged for contracted work to be done by others
  Synonym:subcontractjob

双语例句

• Farm out the prisoners to private families.
  把囚犯作为劳动力出租给私人。
• The children were playing with a toy farm made out of cardboard.
  孩子们正在玩卡纸板制成的玩具农场。
• The factory has decided to farm out production of some of the machine parts to other plants.
  这家工厂已决定把一些机器零件的生产外包给其他工厂。
• They've got a beautiful old farm house somewhere out in the country.
  他们在乡村的某个地方有一幢漂亮的古老农舍。
• The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal staffs to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms
  这一举措符合让公司的法律专员在单位内部做更多的工作，而不是将工作分包给律师事务所的趋势。
• They live on a farm smewhere out in the wilds.
  他们住在边远地区的一个农场里。
• He has no idea how to pull the farm out of danger.
  他不知该如何使农场脱离危险。
• But he has good political connections so we sent him to our turkey farm out in Denver where he can't cause much damage.
  但是他和一些政界人物关系很好，所以我们就把他送到丹佛那个机构里去，那样他就不能再起多大破坏作用了。
• They've tended to farm out work to consultants.
  他们经常把业务分包给顾问。
• Some people farm their children out while they go to work.
  有些人在工作期间把自己的孩子寄托给他人。