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right-shoring

verb

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 + -ing.

  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. compounded as right-shoring — “right + offshore”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of right-shore

  2. Restructuring a company to achieve an optimal balance of operations performed locally and…

    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.
    • 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.
    • Right-shoring does not require a company to move business processes overseas.

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