How to Use contract out in a Sentence
contract out
idiom-
The city also would have to put a contract out to bid to hire a service provider to run the operation, adding more time to the process.
—Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
-
Take Elliott’s contract out of the mix and the exact same is true for Dallas, with La’el Collins coming in at $12 million.
—Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
-
Notes: Might get the largest contract out of all the Lions' free agents after a productive year starting.
—Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2023
-
The front office felt strongly about Clark’s play during the restart and playoffs last season and re-signed him to a two-year contract out of free agency.
—Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2020
-
Knight further testified that police had told him Dr. Dre had a contract out on his head.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2022
-
Receiver Beckham, who turns 29 Friday, has to believe there’s one more big contract out there for him.
—Marla Ridenour, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2021
-
The market after the run to the Cup Final was robust enough to get a three-year contract out of Dallas for a backup goalie, but that’s not the same situation as right now.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 22 May 2021
-
The borough would contract out the services rather than running them internally.
—Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2022
-
Right-fielder Seiya Suzuki has been excellent since signing a five-year, $85 million contract out of the Japanese league in the off-season.
—Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2022
-
Cortes is one of just a handful of players who has appeared in a major-league game this season after signing a professional contract out of the 36th round or later.
—Jared Diamond, WSJ, 24 May 2022
-
City officials researched the proposal, visiting other skate parks in the region to gather ideas before putting the design contract out to bid in 2018.
—Joe Tash, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
-
Some supply chains have many layers of specialized suppliers, some of whom may contract out their work to other factories.
—New York Times, 22 June 2022
-
Orlando paid out the entirety of one federal pool of funds in November to more than 1,600 households and needed to put the contract out for bid before a new federal pot could be used.
—Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2022
-
The plan now is to contract out most of the work to local organizations that already have experience providing job training.
—Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Apr. 2021
-
Most, as did Washington, work for private companies that contract out their services to businesses.
—Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
-
While many cities had laws regulating enslavers’ ability to contract out their enslaved workers, Charleston is the only place in the country where physical badges have been found.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
-
The 6-foot-3-inch Frederic, 25, has signed two prior deals with the Bruins, including his entry-level contract out of the University of Wisconsin.
—Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
-
In an unprecedented act of transnational terrorism, Khomeini put a contract out on Rushdie, and British Intelligence had to step in to protect his life, not just his freedom of speech.
—Staff Author Published, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
-
Just as households and firms contract out for these services, firms that need accurate time can lease timing services rather than purchasing the clocks and integrating them across their operations.
—Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
-
Officials pulled back that proposal, opting instead to contract out that work — along with the training itself — to an outside organization.
—Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 3 July 2021
-
The administration has argued that the system is gamed by overseas staffing companies that take an unfair share of available visas and contract out their foreign workers, undercutting the wages of Americans.
—Chase Difeliciantonio, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
-
Given the production problems Tesla has experienced in its quest to reinvent the car, Nikola’s decision to stick to design and contract out manufacturing seems smart.
—Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2020
-
In Franklin County, which includes Columbus, the county department of child services has opted to contract out the placement and supervision of foster children, employing 21 private agencies.
—Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
-
Many universities contract out core services to private companies that, unlike their campuses, have the capital to fund construction and other major projects.
—Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
-
And in Wisconsin, where starting pay for public defenders is $27 an hour, there's a shortage of 60 attorney positions statewide while one-third of the private attorneys who contract out for cases have quit the system, according to authorities there.
—Gillian Flaccus, ajc, 8 May 2022
-
The announcement Wednesday confirms speculation in the crypto community that Tesla would not simply contract out payments to a third-party processor and treat Bitcoin like dollars.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Mar. 2021
-
Across the industry, boosting production will take weeks or months, as test makers race to hire more workers, order raw materials, and contract out packaging, manufacturing, and other functions.
—Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2022
-
In Detroit, the district opted to contract out for additional mental health services rather than temporarily hire new counselors and social workers, said Superintendent Nikolai Vitti.
—Koby Levin, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2022
-
Dir: Warren Beatty An incumbent California senator facing a tough primary battle takes out a $10 million life insurance policy before putting a contract out on himself.
—The New Republic, 22 June 2023
-
Pay equity advocates say the bill is particularly important in California where technology companies and other businesses contract out a variety of jobs that often pay less and have fewer privileges than full employees.
—Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2022
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'contract out.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated: