They farmed their land out through careless land management.
•They farmed out their land.
2. to send work to someone to be done away from one's normal place of business; to subcontract work. •We farmed the assembly work out.
•We always farm out the actual final assembly of the finished units.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
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