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onshoring

onshoring is the present participle and gerund of onshore.

Meaning of onshore

Verb

onshore (third-person singular simple present onshores, present participle onshoring, simple past and past participle onshored)

  1. To relocate production, services or jobs to lower-cost locations in the same country.
    • I don’t want to suggest that any attempt to onshore production will doom America to runaway costs, supply-chain catastrophes, and frayed global alliances. In many cases, I’m sure there are brilliant reasons to bring back more advanced manufacturing, clean-energy construction, and resource...2023 February 8, Derek Thompson, “Don’t ‘Buy American’”, in The Atlantic

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Questions about onshoring

What is onshoring the present participle and gerund of?
Onshoring is the present participle and gerund of onshore.

Words near onshoring in the dictionary

  1. onsettings
  2. onshell
  3. onshore
  4. onshored
  5. onshores
  6. onshoring
  7. onside
  8. onside kick
  9. onside kicks
  10. onsides
  11. onsie

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