"farm out" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "farms out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farming out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farmed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farmed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "farm out (third-person singular simple present farms out, present participle farming out, simple past and past participle farmed out)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Business",
          "orig": "en:Business",
          "parents": [
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "farmout"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
      ],
      "id": "en-farm_out-en-verb-RKzVwm9d",
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "subcontract",
          "subcontract"
        ],
        [
          "outsource",
          "outsource"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "farm out"
}

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    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "farmout"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "farms out",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farming out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farmed out",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "farmed out",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (out)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Business"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "business",
          "business"
        ],
        [
          "subcontract",
          "subcontract"
        ],
        [
          "outsource",
          "outsource"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic, business) To subcontract (a task, responsibility, etc.) to another; to outsource."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
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}