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noun a contract assigning to another party some obligations of a prior contract
verb arranged for contracted work to be done by others
verb work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract
originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- English contract English subcontract From sub- + contract.
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