IELTS Anvil

outsource

CEFR: B2

To contract out business services, manufacturing, or operations to external specialized vendors.

Synonyms

subcontract
delegate

Common Collocations

outsource manufacturing
outsource operations
heavily outsourced

Example Sentence

Multinational corporations frequently outsource software testing to lower labor cost markets.

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