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offshore, v. Business.
Brit. |ˌɒfˈʃɔː|, U.S. |ˌɔfˈʃɔ(ə)r|, |ˌɑfˈʃɔ(ə)r|
[‹ either offshore adv. or offshore adj.]
trans. To move or base (a business operation) abroad, usually to take advantage of lower costs.
1985PR Newswire (Nexis) 4 Apr. In its U.S. industrial business, the company is faced with the problem of replacing sales to existing customers, who are increasingly off-shoring their manufacturing operations, with sales to new customers in new markets. 1987S. S. Cohen Manuf. Matters ii. 17 What would have happened had we offshored agricultural production instead of automating it? 1997D. W. Britt Conceptual Introd. Modeling v. 95 By offshoring labor-intensive, low-wage manufacturing, the Japanese have also been able to improve their competitive posture. 2005Computer Weekly 12 July 22/3 It is a confusing recruitment market out there. Some jobs are being offshored, some aren't. |