subcontract
/sʌbkənˈtrakt/
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American sound/sʌbkənˈtrakt/
sʌbkənˈtrakt
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sʌbkən - ˈtrakt -> subcontract
Myanmar meaning
တစ်ဆင့်ခံ ကန်ထရိုက်အဖြစ် ငှားရမ်းသည်။ တစ်ဆင့်ခံ ကန်ထရိုက် ဖြစ်စေသည်။ တာဝန်ယူသည်။ လက်ခွဲကန်ထရိုက်။
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subcontract /sʌbkǝn'trækt; US -'kɒntrækt/ v
~ sth (to sb) တစ်ဆင့်ခံ ကန်ထရိုက်ပေးသည်။ လုပ်ငန်း လက်ဆင့်ကမ်း ခွဲဝေ သည်။
The company subcontracts its market research to a specialist consultancy.
/'sʌbkɒntrækt/ n တစ်ဆင့်ခံ ကန်ထရိုက်လုပ်ငန်း။ a plumber doing subcontract work.
❏ subcontractor /sʌbkǝn'træktǝ(r); US -'kɒntræk-/ n တစ်ဆင့်ခံ ကန်ထရိုက်တာ။
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- ‘It would be subcontracting out their security.’
- ‘Did firm A subcontract the work to firm B?’
- ‘Global companies like The Gap, he explained, typically subcontract with as many as 5, 000 factories in 50 countries.’
- ‘When they subcontract to foreign companies, which brings in foreign nationals who might have other allegiances in place.’
- ‘He admitted Costain was in discussions with US firms to subcontract work.’
- ‘Foundation trusts will be free to break up clinical service elements such as elective surgery, urology, or cardiac services and subcontract clinical work out to commercial firms.’
- ‘His ability to build the sets without subcontracting the work helps us get much more impact for our budget dollars.’
- ‘At the same time, the school authorities won their demand to subcontract with social service agencies to provide students psychological and other counseling services.’
- ‘Other factories, she says, also refuse to subcontract with the shop because of its unionized workforce.’
- ‘Company management has inserted contract language into its proposal that would allow it to subcontract work or ship it to China.’
- ‘All of the lenders claim that their agreements prohibit spamming, but plenty of lead generators then subcontract out to other lead generators, many of whom use spam.’
- ‘The conventional arrangement is for the major NGO recipient to subcontract actual field operations out to a number of local indigenous NGOs which do the actual service delivery or data collection.’
- ‘A very reputable and conscientious contractor was reroofing a wood frame condominium building and had subcontracted the work on the torch-applied roof to another firm.’
- ‘Many of them no longer have resident artists or glass painters, and consequently subcontract out to people like my brother.’
- ‘The councils were the ‘respectable’ wing of the racist establishment, subcontracting out the use of violent and terrorist methods to the Ku Klux Klan.’
- ‘Under the new policy, the NSC now has to subcontract more than 9, 000 of its research projects to the lowest bidders.’
- ‘They would receive commissions for particular texts, which they would then subcontract out to scribes, illuminators, and binders, to whom they also supplied materials and tools.’
- ‘It will subcontract work to companies and other universities.’
- ‘Why don't they subcontract out the running of BahamasAir and make them keep the name?’
- ‘Here, my client had subcontracted all the various aspects of the building.’
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