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verb (used with object)

(of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.

to contract out (jobs, services, etc.): a small business that outsources bookkeeping to an accounting firm.

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verb (used without object)

to obtain goods or services from an outside source: U.S. companies who outsource from China.

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Origin:
1975–80

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out·sourc·ing, noun

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Outsourcing has yet to make a significant appearance in this year's political campaign.

The trend towards more outsourcing is not confined to manufacturing.

They also say that outsourcing has caused wealthy countries to lose too many jobs.

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Outsourcing has yet to make a significant appearance in this year's political campaign.

The trend towards more outsourcing is not confined to manufacturing.

They also say that outsourcing has caused wealthy countries to lose too many jobs.

The resulting ineffectiveness necessitates outsourcing all the work to more capable firms with sensible hiring standards.

As well as outsourcing their business systems, some companies are doing the same with the workers who operate them.

Expedite has also become the patron of victims of outsourcing.

For years, outsourcing has been a dirty word inside the world of white-shoe law firms.

Rich countries are outsourcing carbon-dioxide emissions.

Outsourcing your data storage saves you on maintenance and might even bring upgrades along the way.

The pressure on companies, and even governments, to reduce costs means that many outsourcing businesses are booming.

For, although the jobs killed by outsourcing abroad are easy to spot, the benefits are less visible but even greater.

Robot lovers and outsourcing opponents could soon have something in common: the fear that their jobs are at stake.

The potential costs and benefits of outsourcing start with the product.

There will certainly not be jobs in business-process outsourcing for all.

Call it the harbinger of a giant outsourcing boomerang.

If the product is easy to describe and easy to make, the upsides of outsourcing are.

In practice, managing the outsourcing process can be tricky, particularly for more complex activities.

Although outsourcing has its limits, as when an occasional.

Globalization and technology are amplifying the impact of outsourcing.

The logic of global outsourcing in the aerospace industry remains powerful.

Technology and outsourcing of menial labor also make our careers less physical.

Indian outsourcing companies are hiring workers and opening offices in other developing countries.

The pressure to cut costs also increases in a recession, which may lead to more outsourcing and hence to more services trade.

The same ministry was later found to be using outsourcing contracts to boost the salaries of its civil servants.

They now perform sophisticated outsourcing functions instead.

Gurgaon is a global centre for outsourcing back-office services.

The social-impact bond is said to have two advantages over traditional outsourcing and public-private-finance programmes.

Then they figured out that they could save money by outsourcing parts of their production process to other firms.

Companies are also outsourcing supply-chain services.

It is not unusual to find different outsourcing strategies among successful companies in the same industry.

Services can't hardly be delivered out from outsourcing centers, they are personalized, local and highly specialized.

He is concerned that companies are outsourcing not only peripheral activities but many core functions too.

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Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon

Main Entry:	outsourcing
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	See insourcing

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Word Origin & History

outsource

in ref. to jobs going overseas, by 1981 (as outsourcing), from out + verbal use of source.

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outsourcing definition

business
Paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform, e.g. software development.
(1995-03-28)

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

outsourcing

work arrangement made by an employer who hires an outside contractor to perform work that could be done by company personnel. Outsourcing has been a frequent point of dispute for organized labour. If, for example, an employer has a labour contract with a union, and the outsourced work could be performed by union members, then the union will typically object to such a practice because it takes work away from the union's members. Management favours outsourcing, or subcontracting, often to nonunion providers, because these activities can often reduce costs. Outsourcing can also reduce the number of employees in a collective bargaining unit

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