Right-shore
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 policy to one in which government ICT activities are outsource predominantly to interstate and offshore companies."
Example
More examples"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 policy to one in which government ICT activities are outsource predominantly to interstate and offshore companies."
Etymology
From Rightshore®, a term trademarked by the company Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, with a filing date of May 27, 2003; ( Blend of right + offshore ).
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