- offshoring
- offshoring (n.) in the economic sense, as a form of outsourcing, attested by 1988, from OFFSHORE (Cf. offshore).
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offshoring — n. The practice of a business having some or all of its operations performed in a foreign country by local workers, usually for cost reasons. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell.… … Law dictionary
offshoring — UK [ˈɒfˌʃɔːrɪŋ] US [ˈɔfˌʃɔrɪŋ] noun [uncountable] business the practice of sending work to be done in another country in order to save money Thesaurus: to employ someonesynonym applying and interviewing for jobshyponym … Useful english dictionary
Offshoring — Offshore may refer to oil and natural gas production at sea; see Oil platform. For the Philippine outsourcing company, see Offshoring Inc. Offshoring describes the relocation by a company of a business process from one country to another… … Wikipedia
Offshoring — Der Begriff Offshoring bzw. Auslandsverlagerung bezeichnet eine Form der Verlagerung unternehmerischer Funktionen und Prozesse ins Ausland. Auslöser für eine Offshoring Entscheidung sind in der Regel die im Ausland günstigeren Rahmenbedingungen,… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Offshoring — Este artículo o sección sobre economía necesita ser wikificado con un formato acorde a las convenciones de estilo. Por favor, edítalo para que las cumpla. Mientras tanto, no elimines este aviso puesto el 15 de agosto de 2008. También puedes… … Wikipedia Español
Offshoring — ▪ 2005 Introduction by Christopher O Leary By 2004 offshoring the practice of companies outsourcing operations overseas, usually to less developed countries (LDCs) with the intention of reducing costs had already become one of the major… … Universalium
offshoring — offshore offshore 2 verb [transitive] MANUFACTURING if a company offshores jobs or an activity, it moves them to a foreign country where costs are lower: • Some 3,000 formerly British jobs have been offshored each year since the millennium.… … Financial and business terms
Offshoring — L’offshoring désigne la délocalisation des activités de service ou de production de certaines entreprises vers des pays à bas salaire. Ce phénomène a commencé dans les années 1970 par des entreprises américaines [réf. nécessaire]. Après s… … Wikipédia en Français
offshoring — [[t]ɒ̱fʃɔːrɪŋ, AM ɔ͟ːf [/t]] N UNCOUNT Offshoring is the practice of moving a company s work to a foreign country where labour costs are cheaper. [BUSINESS] Offshoring provides an opportunity to obtain I.T. services at low cost … English dictionary
Offshoring Research Network — Launch year: 2004 Founder: Prof. Arie Y. Lewin (Duke University, USA) Managed by: Duke CIBER Fuqua School of Business Partner universities: From Western Europe and Australia … Wikipedia
