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to insource

to insource

1 7.2
To move work from outside companies back to a company's own staff
  • verb
  • /ˈɪnˌsɔrs/
  • Jargon
translation icon : internalizar
  • Whether new technologies could, in effect, be insourced to the government rather than contracted out to the private sector was a question that could have benefited from public discussion before the decision to outsource was made.

Companies will always outsource and always insource things.

Examples

  • That said, we could save some money by insourcing many functions that have been outsourced at horrible expense.

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  • His cost savings are due to insourcing everything, employing lots of very young folks at 50 hours per week, and only then to mass production methods.

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  • Then there was the "Bring Jobs Home Act" that gave tax credits to companies that would insource jobs to America from overseas.

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  • President Obama hosted an "Insourcing American Jobs Forum" last week with business leaders who are bringing jobs back to the United States.

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  • We were outsourcing and insourcing services for our highly flexible virtual companies when Windows 3.0 was state of the art.

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  • As previously announced, GM is moving from a highly outsourced to a largely insourced business model.

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  • Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked the No. 1 item on the president's congressional "to-do list," refusing to allow a vote on a bill that would give tax breaks for companies that "insource" jobs to the U.S. from overseas while eliminating tax deductions for companies that move jobs abroad.

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  • The company decided to insource its IT support to improve efficiency and control costs.

  • To enhance quality and reduce expenses, the firm will insource its product assembly next year.

  • By choosing to insource customer service, the organization aims to provide a better experience for its clients.

Antonyms

to outsource
65 5.3

To hire another company to do work your company usually does

How In-House

to insource
  • Jargon
1 7.2
to outsource
65 5.3

Surface Forms

insource infinitive
insourced past
insourced past participle
insourcing present participle
insources third person singular

Morphology

insource = outsource (semi-transparent) = in + source

The word is usually understood as an opposite formed by analogy with 'outsource', but that meaning is not fully predictable from 'source' alone.

Etymology

Insource comes from the part in- meaning 'into' or 'within' and the word source meaning 'origin' or 'where something comes from', and it is the opposite of outsource. So to insource is to bring work 'back in' to your own company or team for more control and closer management.