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• n  a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract
• v  arranged for contracted work to be done by others
• v  work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract

• The city council also licensed some psychic stores, which were allowed to subcontract to five fortune-telling workers apiece.
• His original subcontract has been doubled.
• You could subcontract with another nation, fight on the sly and hope no one notices.

• farm out
• job

News & Articles

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• Erickson Air-Crane signs contract renewal with Fluor for over $100M
  Erickson Air-Crane (EAC) has received an annual option year subcontract extension for its work with Fluor (FLR). The award was made to Evergreen Helicopters, a recently acquired and now wholly owned subsidiary ...
  June 19, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
• Businessman seeks to meet with commissioners about hiring preferences
  In a Thursday email to commissioners and the media, A.K. Hasan said Turner Construction project manager Jennifer Henderson made the "bold announcement" at the pre-bid conference that Turner would utilize no preference for women or minorities in its award of bids to electrical subcontractors, while Hasan, who is black, was the only minority in the room.
  June 18, 2013 - The Augusta Chronicle
• Raytheon to maintain USAF Global Hawk ground elements
  Dulles VA (SPX) Jun 18, 2013 Raytheon has been awarded a subcontract to provide contractor logistics support to the ground station elements for the U.S. Air Force's fleet of RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Raytheon continues to support the Global Hawk mission, building on its 99.8 percent ground station availability to support the warfighters. "As the original developer and ...
  June 17, 2013 - Space War

Quotes

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• Pete Domenici in Philadelphia Business Journal
  DOE has turned to ANCs as a quick and easy way to increase its small business ranking, even though an ANC may turn around and subcontract with a large business for the work,Domenici says. "Hopefully this language will encourage the...
• Rebecca Peters in Common Dreams (press release)
  EU arms makers don't have to sacrifice profits for the sake of principle, instead they can simply subcontract,said Rebecca Peters, director of the International Action Network on Small Arms. "For example, the Austrian gun company Glock is...
• Tony Blair in Independent
  But at his monthly press conference yesterday, Mr Blair said: "The only person who decides who is in the government or not in the end is the Prime Minister. You can't subcontract that decision. That is why I didn't agree with the recommendation."