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reshoring

reshoring noun: the transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.

Noun

reshoring (uncountable)

  1. The transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.
    • Sleek Audio is part of a trend called reshoring, in which primarily small businesses decide that China is a hassle and that they want to bring their operations closer to home, where the recession has lowered costs, created workers eager for jobs, and made it easier to justify U.S. manufacturing.2011 June 29, Sheridan Prasso, “Why we left our factories in China”, in Fortune, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2011

Origin of reshoring

From re- + shoring, after offshoring.

Questions about reshoring

What does reshoring mean?
Reshoring means the transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.
What part of speech is reshoring?
Reshoring is a noun.

Words near reshoring in the dictionary

  1. reshootings
  2. reshoots
  3. reshore
  4. reshored
  5. reshores
  6. reshoring
  7. reshorn
  8. reshorten
  9. reshortened
  10. reshortening
  11. reshortenings

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