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offshorization

offshorization noun: the act of moving capital to offshore accounts, or relocating business to a foreign country with a more lenient tax regime.

Noun

offshorization (uncountable)

  1. (neologism) The act of moving capital to offshore accounts, or relocating business to a foreign country with a more lenient tax regime.
    • On the domestic front, the existence of efficiency asymmetries—specifically, the existence of more efficient offshore intermediaries that only intermediate in dollars—induces dollarization through “offshorization” and by forcing domestic intermediaries to raise their peso margins so as to...2005, Alain Ize, Financial De-Dollarization: Is It for Real?, page 12

Origin of offshorization

From offshore + -ization.

Words formed from offshorization

Questions about offshorization

What does offshorization mean?
Offshorization means the act of moving capital to offshore accounts, or relocating business to a foreign country with a more lenient tax regime.
What part of speech is offshorization?
Offshorization is a noun.

Words near offshorization in the dictionary

  1. offshorer
  2. offshorers
  3. offshores
  4. offshoring
  5. offshorings
  6. offshorization
  7. offside
  8. offside rule
  9. offside trap
  10. offside traps
  11. offsider

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