I have farmed my electrician out for a week, so your work will have to wait.
•We farmed out the office staff.
2. to send a child away to be cared for by someone; to send a child to boarding school. •We farmed the kids out to my sister for the summer.
•We farmed out the kids.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
farm someone/thing out — send out or subcontract work to others. → farm … English new terms dictionary
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farm — noun an area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals. ↘a farmhouse. ↘an establishment for breeding, growing, or producing something: a fish farm|a wind farm. verb 1》 make one s living as a farmer. ↘use (land) for … English new terms dictionary
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