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noun
the practice of moving employees or certain business activities to foreign countries as a way to lower costs, avoid taxes, etc.: the offshoring of software jobs to China.
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| Main Entry: | offshoring |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the practice of moving business processes or services to another country, esp. overseas, to reduce costs |
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Word Origin & History
offshoring
in the economic sense, as a form of outsourcing, attested by 1988, from offshore.
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offshoring definition
businessTransfer of a business process, e.g. manufacturing or customer service, from a company in one country to the same or another company in a different country. This overlaps partially with outsourcing, in which work is transferred to a different company in the same or a different country.
(2008-12-12)
Encyclopedia Britannica
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offshoring
the practice of outsourcing operations overseas, usually by companies from industrialized countries to less-developed countries, with the intention of reducing the cost of doing business. Chief among the specific reasons for locating operations outside a corporation's home country are lower labour costs, more lenient environmental regulations, less stringent labour regulations, favourable tax conditions, and proximity to raw materials.
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