How to Use outsource in a Sentence

outsource

verb
Definition of outsourcenext
  • This factor alone carries a potential to outsource the job of a receptionist in many businesses.
    — Rauf Arif, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Others outsource the operations and management to providers.
    — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2024
  • Many jurisdictions outsource digital projects to vendors, Lee said.
    — Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Outsource school reopening now, or watch its schools crumble as families outsource their children’s education somewhere else.
    — Joe Mathews, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • For a company simply looking to start selling quickly and outsource a lot of the logistics involved in retail, Amazon can be attractive.
    — Marc Bain, Quartz, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Several of those opposed to the legislation told their fellow delegates that mining has already proven to be safe and the law would outsource jobs to foreign countries that rely on child labor.
    — Mark Wasson, Twin Cities, 2 June 2024
  • If our state is ever going to resume universal public education, we Californians will have to outsource the task.
    — Joe Mathews, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • Companies typically outsource development of bots to third-party software firms.
    — Angus Loten, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Now, Intel must decide whether to admit technical defeat and outsource its leading-edge chips to rival manufacturers in Asia.
    — oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Tempe now must outsource forensic work to Mesa, at great cost.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • To test for other health factors, a provider may need to outsource.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 20 May 2024
  • Nitso of the Old Stone Inn said her hotel has had to outsource housekeeping jobs for the first time due to a lack of workers.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
  • No one else can do this inner work for you, so don't try to outsource it -- the results will only frustrate you!
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2022
  • If your teams don't have the resource, then outsource this activity as a short-term fix.
    — Simone Morris, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • For the time being, most of these companies outsource to established labs to get the results.
    — Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2021
  • And, in New York, some companies may pull listings or outsource more jobs to avoid the new requirements—at least at first.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The study quoted providers who were unhappy with attempts to outsource CCM work.
    — Phil Galewitz, NPR, 17 Apr. 2024
  • There are successful teams that outsource much of this and others that are entirely in-house.
    — Austin Helton, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • First, the limit encourages us to decline, outsource or otherwise weed out tasks that shouldn’t make our to-do list in the first place.
    — Dana Brownlee, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Those of us who outsource care work are no different from our nannies and child-care workers and the people cleaning our homes.
    — Angela Garbes, The Atlantic, 13 May 2022
  • Here’s how to outsource your way to holiday happiness in 2024.
    — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Because the doctor’s slides were covered with a special stain, Brady had to outsource the analysis work to a private lab.
    — Isabel Seliger, ProPublica, 24 May 2021
  • Web copy is often the last step, and a lot of businesses outsource it to unqualified freelancers.
    — Marc Hardgrove, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The desire to outsource some of the creative process to algorithms is old, older than AI, even older than computers.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Features like these—which help humans do the work of vetting sources for themselves—serve searchers better than any attempt to outsource that labor to AI.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 19 May 2021
  • These firms would design and sell their own chips, but outsource manufacturing to a third-party.
    — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Arizona law does not allow the Senate to outsource democracy and shroud it in secrecy.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 16 July 2021
  • The latest workplace scam to look out for: Employees hiring their own employees to outsource their work.
    — Amber Burton, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Determine which tasks exhaust your energy the most and outsource them.
    — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Many chipmakers outsource large amounts of their manufacturing, and some have never owned a plant of their own.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 22 July 2021

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