offshored
offshored is the simple past and past participle of offshore.
Meaning of offshore
Verb
offshore (third-person singular simple present offshores, present participle offshoring, simple past and past participle offshored)
- To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.
- The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million.2005 July 25, Robert J. Samuelson, “The World Is Still Round”, in Newsweek, page 49
Questions about offshored
- What is offshored the simple past and past participle of?
- Offshored is the simple past and past participle of offshore.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: offshored (page history and authors); offshore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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