to offshore

Examples

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• Wall Street benefited by encouraging companies in the rest of the country to offshore their production.

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• We have government incentives for corporations to offshore jobs.

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• And when everybody took production offshore, it closed down.

• I'm waiting for the day they offshore management skills too.

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• Companies that offshore too much could also suddenly find difficulties obtaining government contracts.

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• My company has both offshore and inshore business; for every opportunity, they try to offshore, and they do succeed in doing so.

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• A first step is to level the playing field by taxing corporations for the wage differential based on where they offshore labor or source their goods.

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• The GSCC has helped create unemployment over the years, most notably when they ran those seminars back in the early '00s to advise local companies on the easiest and quickest way to lay off their local employees and offshore their jobs.

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• Many companies choose to offshore their manufacturing to reduce costs.

• To remain competitive, some firms will offshore jobs to countries with lower wages.

Synonyms

N

to nearshore

vsto offshore

• Jargon

6.1

To move business services to a nearby country to save money

move them to a more distant country mainly to reduce costs

Antonyms

I

insourcing

• Specialized

1 4.9

A company's use of its own employees instead of hiring outside contractors, often bringing work back from other firms

Compounds

O

offshore rig

• Specialized

1 5.6

A large structure in the sea for drilling oil or gas from under the sea floor

O

offshore drilling rig

• Specialized

6.3

Large platform at sea where workers get oil or gas from under the sea floor

How Offshore

to offshore

1 4.7

to nearshore

• Jargon

6.1

onshore

• Specialized

2 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology