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US
/ˌaʊtˈsɔɹs/
]
[ UK /aʊtsˈɔːs/ ]
[ UK /aʊtsˈɔːs/ ]
VERB
-
obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out
Many companies outsource and hire consultants in order to maintain a flexible workforce
How To Use outsource In A Sentence
- They're extremely successful and there's no cause to outsource work.
- Before the City outsourced its fleet services, there was an estimated 40 percent availability of vehicles.
- We outsource our memories to the cloud and virtualize our friends. The Times Literary Supplement
- The work of interior design could be outsourced to those professional companies.
- CollaborativeNetworking internal jobs can make so much economic sense that sometimes vital functions are outsourced to competitors, to mutual benefit.
- Outsourced homeshoring jobs grew 20% last year, to 112,000 jobs, estimates tech-market researcher IDC, and will hit 330,000 by 2010. Archive 2006-01-01
- It plans to outsource the remaining 25% of its production capacity and expects to conclude this by August.
- Some might want to outsource the entire recruitment function to a dedicated team that manages and administers all of the company's recruitment activity from our premises.
- According to Toner, the decision to outsource is a typical business decision in which risk is balanced against cost.
- Besides its spot-on timeliness, "Outsourced" is a delightful comedy for how it deftly harvests laughs from the inevitable culture clash, from Todd's overeagerness to bridge the gap, and from the innate silliness of the company's product line (whoopee cushions, foam fingers and the like). 2010 Fall TV Lineup: 10 New Shows Worth Checking Out