Definition of Contract out

1. Verb. Assign a job to someone outside one's own business.

Generic synonyms: Contract, Sign, Sign On, Sign Up

2. Verb. Refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use.
Generic synonyms: Decline, Refuse
Antonyms: Contract In

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contract Out

contraceptive method
contraceptive pill
contraceptives
contraclockwise
contract
contract bridge
contract in
contract killer
contract killing
contract law
contract of adhesion
contract of hazard
contract of sale
contract offer
contract out (current term)
contract programming
contract services
contract under seal
contractability
contractable
contracted
contracted foot
contracted heel
contracted kidney
contracted pelvis
contractedly
contractedness
contractee
contractees

Literary usage of Contract out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"And the general doctrine that to make a part payment effective to take a contract out of the statute of frauds when such payment is made subsequent to the ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""Fraud 1n the procurement of a note," as used in section 2785 of the Code, lias no reference to fraud in the contract out of which a negotiable security ..."

3. A Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States ...by Stewart Rapalje by Stewart Rapalje (1891)
"Possession delivered in pursuance of a parol agreement is such a degree of performance as to take the contract out of statute of fraud*. Ryan v. ..."

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