farm out
verb
farmed out; farming out; farms out
1
: to turn over for performance by another usually under contract
farm out a job
2
a
: to put (someone, such as a child) into the hands of another for care
b
: to send (an athlete, such as a baseball player) to a farm team
3
: to exhaust (land) by farming especially by continuously raising one crop
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The idea of farming out one of your iconic brands to a third-party producer may seem anathema to some, but under the terms of the BBC’s operating agreement, known as its royal charter, the corporation has a duty to put in-house shows out to the market.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 June 2026
Emerging talents Radek Vitek, Toby Collyer and Harry Amass, who were also farmed out this season, need to be playing first-team football in a top league or the Championship.
—Andy Mitten, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Matthew Isaac Knoot ran a laptop farm out of his Nashville home between July 2022 and August 2023, court records show, and helped the North Korean scheme with jobs at four companies that paid more than $250,000 for IT work.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 May 2026
But lawyering is also about judgment—that part can’t be farmed out to AI yet.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 June 2026
Emerging talents Radek Vitek, Toby Collyer and Harry Amass, who were also farmed out this season, need to be playing first-team football in a top league or the Championship.
—Andy Mitten, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Matthew Isaac Knoot ran a laptop farm out of his Nashville home between July 2022 and August 2023, court records show, and helped the North Korean scheme with jobs at four companies that paid more than $250,000 for IT work.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 May 2026
But lawyering is also about judgment—that part can’t be farmed out to AI yet.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
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“Farm out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/farm%20out. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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