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offshoring

offshoring

5 4.6
Moving a company's jobs to another country to save money or avoid rules
  • noun
  • /ˈɔfˌʃɔrɪŋ/
translation icon : externalización
  • The offshoring of customer service departments to countries with lower wages has become increasingly common.

And a lot of this has to do with what I've called fake growth, downsizing, offshoring, immigration, securitization.

Examples

  • Over the last two decades, India has become a global hub for software development and offshoring of back office services, as we call it.

  • Once we stop giving tax breaks for offshoring, the middle class can thrive again.

    Blog text (26)
  • So this created a new wave of sort of, you know, offshoring manufacturing to other countries.

  • So far, the "offshoring" of U.S. information technology has attracted most of the attention.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The conventional wisdom is that massive offshoring of service jobs to India is a good thing.

    Blog text (23)
  • The lower strata of the legal profession are already going the way of automation and offshoring.

    Blog text (20)
  • The list of advantages to offshoring that Mr. Conard ticked off was interesting.

    Blog text (12)
  • Widespread acceptance of offshoring of services represents a significant manifestation of this commoditization.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Fritz, whose non-profit organization advises Congress, said policymakers have little solid data to assess how strong the offshoring tide has become.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The number of American jobs that could potentially be offshored to a country with lower wages is large (Blinder 2009), and the offshoring of services could lead to the same sort of upward bias in measures of productivity that is caused by the offshoring of goods.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

delocalization
vsoffshoring
  • Specialized
7.7

Moving jobs or production to another country to lower costs

moves them specifically to another country often to reduce costs or avoid regulations

Antonyms

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

How Local

to nearshore
  • Jargon
6.1
delocalization
  • Specialized
7.7
offshoring
5 4.6

Surface Forms

offshoring singular
offshorings plural

Morphology

offshoring = offshore (transparent) = offshore + ing

Derived from the verb 'offshore' with the nominalizing '-ing'; the meaning ('the practice of moving operations abroad') is the regular gerundial sense and is predictable to learners.

Etymology

Offshoring comes from the word offshore, made of off meaning 'away' and shore meaning 'coast'. Think of a company sending work 'away from its coast' to another country to save money or avoid rules, so offshoring means moving jobs or business operations to another country.