What's the difference between outsource and subcontract?

Outsource


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
  • (2) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
  • (3) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
  • (4) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
  • (5) Switzerland "outsourced" more than half of its carbon dioxide emissions, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • (6) Fairfax plans to outsource most photographic jobs to Getty Images.
  • (7) "The truth is many outsourcing contracts ensure costs remain high."
  • (8) We are particularly concerned about what will happen to entitlements, to annual leave and rest breaks, to parental leave, to rights for agency, part-time and temporary workers and to protections if your job is outsourced or your company sold off.
  • (9) Grayling made clear that he was making a virtue out of the inability of two of the biggest outsourcing companies in criminal justice to bid for £450m of contracts covering the probation service in England and Wales, which are to be put up for competition later this year.
  • (10) However, it is wrong to suppose that outsourcing only erodes wages at the bottom.
  • (11) Profit in outsourcing comes from cutting pay and squeezing the workforce.
  • (12) The first questioner asked about the outsourcing of jobs offshore and asked the leaders how they would attract companies to Australia to provide jobs in Australia.
  • (13) Since their arrival on British soil, the UK government has denied responsibility for the group and sought to outsource its obligations under international law to Cyprus,” she said.
  • (14) The NHS is subject to many kinds of change, most offered in the name of greater patient choice and control – hence the shift to outsourcing and privatisation.
  • (15) A regular Bitcoin user may not be outsourcing their trust to the government or a central bank when they use the currency, but they're not exactly outsourcing their trust to people just like them, either.
  • (16) Blair pressed privatisation, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, demutualisation and more in fealty to the market and the global corporate world.
  • (17) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.
  • (18) Yet despite the evidence that outsourcing and privatisation, far from improving efficiency, actually does the opposite, the coalition still seems hell-bent on reducing the public sector's role.
  • (19) What the government has created in its place – rocketing number of disability assessments, outsourced to multimillion-pound private contracts mixed with failing back-to-work programmes – is the definition of economic stupidity.
  • (20) It said while cash in the business had recently been focused on debt reduction and increasing the dividend, it was now a good time to invest more in US expansion, where the market is still very fragmented and more local authorities are seeking to outsource school bus contracts.

Subcontract


Definition:

  • (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said he was working hard to ensure that the large companies that take on the task of helping the unemployed also subcontract some of this work to smaller, local voluntary firms.
  • (2) Funds are awarded to schools of medicine or osteopathy which in turn subcontract with at least two other health professional schools.
  • (3) An investment corporation could be set up to spend the money, either by building generation capacity directly, or by subcontracting the work to existing operators.
  • (4) The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, headed by environment secretary Liz Truss, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), whose chief executive is Lin Homer, continue to refuse to ensure that all their subcontracted staff are paid the living wage.
  • (5) He also pointed out that where NBC will be the exclusive Premier League rights holder (and it is not planning to subcontract games, as Fox does with ESPN), it is one of several partners MLS has, including ESPN, Univision, numerous local affiliates and its own MLS Digital arm: "It's a much, much different relationship.
  • (6) Employers shouldn’t be misclassifying workers to keep labor costs down and they shouldn’t be hiding behind complex arrangements like franchising and subcontracting to skirt their responsibilities to their workers.
  • (7) Ed Miliband is said to have "subcontracted" responsibility for HS2 to Balls and moved Maria Eagle, an outspoken supporter of HS2, out of her job as shadow transport secretary, in his recent reshuffle.
  • (8) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
  • (9) Think instead of the thousands of workers at the base of football’s financial pyramid, the people in catering, cleaning, security and ground maintenance who are paid the minimum wage and, if their work is subcontracted, perhaps not even that.
  • (10) In a submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (11) In an extraordinary submission to a Senate inquiry into serious allegations of abuse and conditions at the Australian-run Nauru detention centre , a former employee subcontracted to security provider Wilson Security accused the company of engaging in serious misconduct.
  • (12) The inquiry also heard evidence from three executives from Wilson Security, which is subcontracted by Transfield Services to manage security.
  • (13) In a letter to Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, the Whitehall cleaners argue that although they are subcontracted through a cleaning company, it is ultimately the responsibility of the government department to ensure a just wage.
  • (14) Yet the design of the HIP [home insulation program] facilitated installers subcontracting work to other entities or individuals.” Garrett said it eventually “became apparent” to him that the architecture of the scheme was insufficient.
  • (15) He blames producers who are subcontracting, or buying in chicken from China and then relabelling it as Thai produce before selling it on, just as British factories buy in poultry from the Netherlands and relabel it as British.
  • (16) Citizens UK welcomes that commitment, and calls on Manchester City to go further, to set an example and commit to ensuring that its subcontracted staff – such as those working for the catering companies which serve up major matchday profits to the football clubs – are also paid a living wage.
  • (17) I had never imagined that the justice minister, Chris Grayling, would in effect subcontract a fine repayment to a racketeer.
  • (18) Others will get involved with subcontracting [to them], although risk having their fingers burned by payment by results … there is also a big push to establish consortia and there is a push to establish partnerships with business."
  • (19) It subcontracts much of its work to a pool of 250 or so academics, businessmen, economists, retired civil servants and journalists.
  • (20) I didn’t actually come here to free slaves,” says Liam Neeson as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in The Phantom Menace , like a person to whom a huge number of vexing tasks has been subcontracted.

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