How to Use outsource in a Sentence

outsource

verb
Definition of outsourcenext
  • Want to outsource the whole feast or just need help with the sides and pies?
    — Ian McNulty | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That’s okay; like the cleaning, the best thing to do is outsource it.
    — Naomi Tomky, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2019
  • But the response to the pause in research in the United States wasn't to outsource.
    — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The Hopi Health Care Center has to outsource much of its care.
    — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Tempe now must outsource forensic work to Mesa, at great cost.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • To test for other health factors, a provider may need to outsource.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 20 May 2024
  • One of them is the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Aegis.
    — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The steel pods have been outsourced to a factory in China.
    — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2018
  • Democrats first outsourced their attempts to fight Donald Trump to the office of Robert Mueller.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 20 June 2019
  • The union has asked for an explicit agreement from Kaiser not to outsource jobs.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Among the trends is a move to outsource jobs not central to a company’s business.
    — Michelle R. Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • After six months, 30 percent of those who outsourced their plant care had died — twice the rate of those who cared for the plants themselves.
    — Adam Sternbergh, The Cut, 28 May 2018
  • Yet the freakish year of 2020 gave him the chance to outsource his candidacy to the weird cycle of events that drove down Trump’s polls.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • What are the consequences of outsourcing these jobs in terms of the quality of the work being done?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • Nitso of the Old Stone Inn said her hotel has had to outsource housekeeping jobs for the first time due to a lack of workers.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
  • That suggests rich-world firms may have been able to increase markups by outsourcing to cut labour costs.
    — The Economist, 5 July 2018
  • No one else can do this inner work for you, so don't try to outsource it -- the results will only frustrate you!
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • If your teams don't have the resource, then outsource this activity as a short-term fix.
    — Simone Morris, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Alamo Group is adding staff and outsourcing more to address demand.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2018
  • Much of the Stites and Harbison bill includes legal work outsourced to a third party, Nixon Peabody.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 7 May 2018
  • In Oregon, this job has been outsourced to the executive branch.
    — Kyle Sammin, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • For the time being, most of these companies outsource to established labs to get the results.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And, in New York, some companies may pull listings or outsource more jobs to avoid the new requirements—at least at first.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike Tesla, which has its own car factories and has plans for more, Fisker plans to outsource the building of its cars.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The study quoted providers who were unhappy with attempts to outsource CCM work.
    — Phil Galewitz, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Lest anyone forget, the more menial tasks people outsource to Google, the more the company knows about their habits.
    — David Pierson, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • The institutions of social welfare were outsourced to the Catholic Church.
    — Carmel Mc Mahon, Longreads, 13 Nov. 2019
  • There are successful teams that outsource much of this and others that are entirely in-house.
    — Austin Helton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Some creatives already leverage AI to outsource menial tasks and free up resources for their passion projects.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • The not-so-good news is that, due to challenges with additive manufacturing, Relativity is likely to outsource the production of large chunks of the rocket to suppliers in Europe and elsewhere.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2024

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