How to Use subcontract in a Sentence

subcontract

1 of 2 noun

• But that would not have come with a big Chinese loan or the cash that was splashed out on subcontracts and the land purchases needed for the new line.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• That is partly because contracts and subcontracts are spread across dozens of states.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
• Ward power base for years, is among those identified as getting a ComEd subcontract.
  — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Irked at being barred from joining his peers, the 26-year-old Fairey agreed not to make a fuss if he were given a subcontract for aircraft production that allowed him to form his own company.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
• Almost all the work that Carillion won was outsourced to subcontractors, who would often sub-subcontract it in turn.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• That management firm, Northstar, in turn awarded lucrative, no-bid subcontracts to the longtime vendors that formed it.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• At the half-day session — from 8 a.m. to noon — local businesses will be made aware of opportunities to bid for subcontracts for work on Fermilab projects.
  — Staff Report, Aurora Beacon-News, 9 Feb. 2018
• Mike Zalewski, 23rd, who held a subcontract with the lobbying firm of Jay Doherty, who has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in the federal case.
  — Ray Long, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
• Many of the public insurance plans upset by the deal subcontract with KP for patient care and acknowledge that their overall quality scores will likely decline when KP goes its own way.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2022
• Its initiative is aimed at uncovering any undisclosed side deals or subcontracts and whether any third parties act as pay-to-play gatekeepers for public contracts, the people said.
  — Andrew Scurria, WSJ, 9 May 2018
• The device was designed by a team at a company called Garrett AiResearch on a subcontract for Grumman, the aircraft manufacturer.
  — Sarah Fallon, Wired, 23 Dec. 2020
• Maglicic also complained that JT Cleary was holding up negotiations over the subcontract that had already been awarded to the company.
  — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 20 Nov. 2022
• That management firm, Northstar, in turn awarded lucrative, no-bid subcontracts to the longtime vendors that formed it — something that the Rauner administration has blasted.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2017
• After their day on the run, Maya and Anna are brought to Derrick’s house, one of those huge new-build suburban farmhouses that, in my town, were occupied only by families with big, fat military-subcontract money.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• In the meantime, labor was cheap, making China an appealing place to locate (or subcontract) production, and the country’s exports were attractively priced.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Feb. 2022
• Those nonprofits, in turn, ink subcontracts to provide actual services.
  — Tyrone Lomax Jr., miamiherald, 3 Sep. 2017
• Cryor tapped his business contacts to identify $1.8 billion in federal contracts and subcontracts that could create jobs for poor residents with high school diplomas.
  — Erin Cox, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Companies also are required to provide evidence of a commitment to subcontract 25 percent or more of the total dollar amount of all subcontracts to businesses that meet the two criteria.
  — Katrease Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2018
• That setup empowered Kiewit to develop the criteria for each subcontract, to judge various bids that were submitted by its competitors and to make recommendations about which contractor should be hired by the state.
  — Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 10 Dec. 2022
• Among other features familiar to any student of the defense industry, the program relied heavily on outsourcing subcontracts to foreign countries as a means of locking in foreign buyers.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• That would have covered a 2010 investigation into Oregon Department of Energy officials' efforts to secure a subcontract for Hayes, after her firm came in last in the bidding for the primary contract.
  — Jim Ryan, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
• That would have covered the state's 2010 investigation into Oregon Department of Energy officials' efforts to secure a subcontract for Hayes, after her firm came in dead last in bidding for the primary contract.
  — Jeff Manning, OregonLive.com, 16 June 2017
• Founder of Strategic Footprint, which helps companies regain control of their future by moving away from offshore subcontract manufacturing.
  — Doug Donahue, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The committee is requesting documents pertaining to contracts and subcontracts with state, local and federal governments; the average number of people kept at each facility every day and each month; and the cost and profit revenue of each contract.
  — NBC News, 11 July 2019
• According to the Land Bank, demolition contractors directly subcontract with abatement companies, who in turn subcontract air monitoring work.
  — Kat Stafford, Detroit Free Press, 24 July 2019
• Dozens of other private companies do subcontract work at ICE facilities, running guard services, medical facilities, mental health counseling, food preparation, commissary sales, phone and video communication for detainees and janitorial work.
  — USA Today, 20 Dec. 2019
• But that would not have come with a big Chinese loan or the cash that was splashed out on subcontracts and the land purchases needed for the new line.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• That is partly because contracts and subcontracts are spread across dozens of states.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2017
• Ward power base for years, is among those identified as getting a ComEd subcontract.
  — Ray Long, chicagotribune.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• Irked at being barred from joining his peers, the 26-year-old Fairey agreed not to make a fuss if he were given a subcontract for aircraft production that allowed him to form his own company.
  — Eric Tegler, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020

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subcontract

2 of 2 verb

• The large firm subcontracted with a smaller company.
• The last deal, signed in 2011, let the lottery’s two biggest vendors form a firm to oversee the lottery, then subcontract much of the work back to the vendors.
  — Joe Mahr, chicagotribune.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• The firm that gets the winning bid could build the new facility, or subcontract out the project to other firms, officials said.
  — Gregory Tejeda, Post-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2017
• Centro subcontracts much of its work on the PID to other companies.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2018
• As required by the law that allowed for the room tax hike, the plan calls for 15 percent of the construction work to be subcontracted to local small businesses.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• This can be a great way to improve your presence in new markets by having specialists subcontract for you.
  — Tejas Dave, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• Airlines and freight forwarders subcontract ground-handling work at most major airports in the U.S.
  — Doug Cameron, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2021
• By the mid-2000s, food was being subcontracted to an outside caterer.
  — Jamie Feldmar, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• This margin is shaved even thinner when local villagers subcontract the work to even poorer lowlanders, who come up to the mountains to work the harvest.
  — John Wendle, National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2017
• Bogan's firm, based in Old Saybrook, has been subcontracted to strip and de-lead the paint covering the structure of the underpass to make way for vital repairs.
  — Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 16 June 2017
• Marshall continues to subcontract artists for each new project.
  — Dallas News, 29 July 2022
• Nike referred to their Code of Conduct in their response, which requires suppliers to pay severance and to not subcontract.
  — Elizabeth L. Cline, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
• The substitute teacher, who was subcontracted by the Utah school district through Kelly Services, was fired.
  — Marianne Garvey, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
• White was working for a company that was subcontracted by the company listed on the van and was recognized in the surveillance video by staff.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
• As the council debated what to do, airport small business owners who subcontract from the larger companies were caught in the middle.
  — Jessica Boehm, azcentral, 8 June 2020
• One of your employees has subcontracted out some work to another firm.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
• Under that system the master operator could subcontract out games, rides and food.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
• The county oversaw the project and subcontracted AE Engineering to inspect it.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Whiting-Turner to be the construction manager at risk, and subcontract the trade work, according to the university.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• Frontrunner subcontracted the audio and visual work to a separate firm that has not been identified.
  — Jazmine Ulloa, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• Protesters are calling on the airline to provide a $15 minimum wage to its employees and the workers who are subcontracted with United.
  — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 13 Sep. 2019
• The detention center is operated by CoreCivic, which subcontracts with Eloy for the services.
  — Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• The report also calls on companies that subcontract the jobs to stop putting pressure on their temp agenciesto reduce labor costs, which leads to those agencies to engage in exploitative practices.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• And although 27% of government procurement goes to small businesses, most of that goes via the big operators subcontracting their own work.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• Since then, industry wages have come under pressure amid a push to carry less inventory and to subcontract work to lower-cost middlemen.
  — al, 18 Dec. 2020
• Having more countries to subcontract with encourages those countries to compete for business.
  — Doug Donahue, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• The first priority is to cut back on some temporary and subcontracted workers, including 1,100 in Germany, with similar measures likely in France and the U.K., one of the people said.
  — Charlotte Ryan, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
• In 2013, Semich subcontracted out the licensing of .nu to the Swedish Internet Foundation, the subject of the ongoing litigation.
  — Michael Waters, Wired, 7 Feb. 2020
• The Birmingham company subcontracted Ford to help with the project, authorities said.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• They were born subcontracted in a way that really portends the way that corporations are organized today.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 29 Aug. 2018

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