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offshorer

noun

Etymology

From offshore + -er.

  1. inherited from *skurô✻ — “rugged rock, cliff, high rocky shore”
  2. inherited from *sċora✻
  3. inherited from schore
  4. prefixed as offshore — “off- + shore”
  5. suffixed as offshorer — “offshore + er”

Definitions

  1. An organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local…

    An organization that sends work abroad, hiring foreign labour as a substitute for local labour.

    • Is the offshorer's management committed to send the development offshore? If the offshorer is a software company developing the system for a customer, the customer might object to offshoring.

  2. An organization that accepts offshored work from others.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for offshorer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA