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outsource
/aʊtˈsɔːs/
verb
To pay another company to do work that your own company once did.
- “Many firms outsource customer service to cut costs.”Toofey
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Source: Written for Toofey (original); IPA generated with eSpeak NG (GPL-3.0 (software))