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offshorer

offshorer noun: an organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local labour.

Noun

offshorer (plural offshorers)

  1. An organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local labour.
    • Is the offshorer's management committed to send the development offshore? If the offshorer is a software company developing the system for a customer, the customer might object to offshoring.2008, Karl E. Kurbel, The Making of Information Systems
  2. An organization that accepts offshored work from others.
    • HPI practitioners can help identify the cultural norms and traditions and can provide training in the work processes that will be shared. We can study any breakdowns that occur between the organization and the offshorer, to determine their root causes and propose solutions to those issues. We can...2012, William J. Rothwell, Carolyn K. Hohne, Stephen B. King, Human Performance Improvement, page 193

Forms of offshorer

pluraloffshorers

Origin of offshorer

From offshore + -er.

Questions about offshorer

What does offshorer mean?
Offshorer means an organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local labour.
What part of speech is offshorer?
Offshorer is a noun.
What is the plural of offshorer?
The plural of offshorer is offshorers.

Words near offshorer in the dictionary

  1. offshore
  2. offshore seahorse
  3. offshore seahorses
  4. offshoreable
  5. offshored
  6. offshorer
  7. offshorers
  8. offshores
  9. offshoring
  10. offshorings
  11. offshorization

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