"farm out" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1911, Upton Sinclair, The Machine, act II:",
          "text": "These companies are simply paper companies . . . they farm out the contracts to the real builders.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:",
          "text": "The summer of 1976 founnd Jacqui at the Pied Piper in Provincetown doing disco seven nights a week. Come fall, Jacqui farmed out her talents to four separate gay bars — three in Boston and one in Tyngsboro, Mass.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 5, Mark Thompson, “Another Gitmo Grows in Afghanistan”, in Time:",
          "text": "The U.S. military had hoped to farm out the Bagram detainees to prisons run by Afghanistan and other nations.",
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        }
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        "To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
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        [
          "subcontract",
          "subcontract"
        ],
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          "outsource",
          "outsource"
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        "(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
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          "ref": "1977 December 31, Lisa Nussbaum, “Jacqui Mac: Bringing Her Dreams Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 10:",
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