farm out

verb

farmed out; farming out; farms out

transitive verb

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

Examples of farm out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Twelve graduates signed for City at a time when there was no integrated club such as FCN, but none fulfilled their potential and were farmed out on loan. —Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024

There are two other options: Legendary could strike a new distribution deal with another studio, or farm out its films on a title-by-title basis. —Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019

The Trump campaign has made the unusual move of farming out its turnout operations to external groups, primarily Elon Musk’s America PAC. —The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024

Washington state by far has the most apple orchards, representing 2,335 farms out of 27,463 apple-producing farms nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2022 Census of Agriculture. —Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1593, in the meaning defined at sense 1