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right-shoring

right-shoring is the present participle and gerund 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

Noun

right-shoring (uncountable)

  1. Restructuring a company to achieve an optimal balance of operations performed locally and operations moved to foreign countries.
    • Right-shoring is the combination of onshore, near-shore and far-shore operations into a single, flexible, low-cost approach to supply chain management.2012, Joel D. Wisner, Keah-Choon Tan, G. Keong Leong, Principles of Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach, →ISBN
    • Right-shoring addresses the perceived skills issues that can exist in rapidly growing, emerging high-tech economies, particularly in terms of the ratio of senior to junior people.2014, Rex Black, Advanced Software Testing - Vol. 2, 2nd Edition, →ISBN

Origin of right-shoring

From Rightshore®, a term trademarked by the company Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, with a filing date of May 27, 2003; Blend of right + offshore + -ing.

Questions about right-shoring

What does right-shoring mean?
Right-shoring means restructuring a company to achieve an optimal balance of operations performed locally and operations moved to foreign countries.
What is right-shoring the present participle and gerund of?
Right-shoring is the present participle and gerund of right-shore.
What part of speech is right-shoring?
Right-shoring is a noun.

Words near right-shoring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: right-shoring (page history and authors); right-shore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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