farm out
Send work elsewhere
Farm out means to delegate or send work elsewhere rather than handling it internally.
A company might farm out its accounting to a specialist firm; a busy parent might farm out childcare to relatives.
The phrase suggests distributing tasks outward, like sending crops from a farm to market: We farmed out the editing to freelancers.
In sports, to farm out a player is to send them to a minor league team for development.
Hire another for assigned work
- contract outAssign work externally
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
- offshoreAway from land
third-party · vendor · service provider · BPO · consultant · contractor · temp agency · gig worker
subcontract
Hire another for assigned work
- contract outAssign work externally
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- freelanceSelf-employed project work
offshore · third-party · vendor · service provider · BPO · consultant · contractor · temp agency · gig worker · remote work
parcel out
Divide for distribution
dole out · assign · dispense · share out · allot · portion out · mete out · ration · disseminate · divide up
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- outsourcingoutsourcing, outsource, offshore, offshoring, nearshoring
- delegation phrasesdelegate, pass the buck, hand off, assign, outsource
- dividing and givingdistribute, allocate, divide, give, share
farm outinsource
Perform internally, not externally
internalize · onshore · reshore · take back · DIY
farm outretain
Keep possession of
take on · consolidate · centralize · keep · hold onto
farming, farmer, agriculture, farmland, farmers, farmhouse, farmyard, farmhouses, farmhand