reshore
reshore verb: to transfer a business operation back to its country of origin. Also the simple past of reshear.
Verb
reshore (third-person singular simple present reshores, present participle reshoring, simple past and past participle reshored)
- To transfer a business operation back to its country of origin.
- At Frog Bikes, one of the Welsh factory’s newest employees, 26-year-old Neal Brookfield, is hopeful the plant and other moves to reshore manufacturing will create more secure work for his generation.2016 August 19, Katie Allen, “Frog Bikes bring manufacturing back home to beat the business cycle”, in The Guardian
- Among the proposed responses to these problems are to “reshore” or “friend-shore” production and to enact “industrial policies to increase country capacities to produce”.2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian
Also used as
reshore is also the simple past of reshear.
Forms of reshore
| third-person singular present | reshores |
|---|---|
| present participle | reshoring |
| past participle | reshored |
| past | reshored |
Origin of reshore
From re- + shore, after offshore.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Questions about reshore
- What does reshore mean?
- Reshore means to transfer a business operation back to its country of origin.
- What part of speech is reshore?
- Reshore is a verb.
- What is the past tense of reshore?
- The past tense of reshore is reshored.
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