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right-shored

right-shored is the simple past and past participle of right-shore.

Meaning of right-shore

Verb

right-shore (third-person singular simple present right-shores, present participle right-shoring, simple past and past participle right-shored)

  1. To move (a part of a business) overseas while retaining other portions of the business locally in order to maximise efficiency and profits.
    • Even EDS, which had a sizeable representation in Adelaide under the former government (having won a contract to handle all government ICT outsourcing), has now 'right-shored' its South Australian operations to a significant extent, after the current state government's change of its outsourcing...2008, Guy G. Gable, The Information Systems Academic Discipline in Australia, →ISBN, page 217

Questions about right-shored

What is right-shored the simple past and past participle of?
Right-shored is the simple past and past participle of right-shore.

Words near right-shored in the dictionary

  1. right-of-ways
  2. right-oh
  3. right-on
  4. right-onness
  5. right-shore
  6. right-shored
  7. right-shores
  8. right-shoring
  9. right-side-out
  10. right-side-up
  11. right-size

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