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Definition: Outsource |
OutsourceVerb1. Obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out; "Many companies outsource and hire consultants rather in order to maintain a flexible workforce". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Business | The market will consolidate, rather than outsource to a number of suppliers. (references) | |
Therefore the decision to outsource should be an integral part of the organization's routine planning and must be linked to achievable objectives. (references) | ||
Many companies outsource data processing and other applications to specialized firms which are referred to as Application Service Providers (ASPs). (references) | ||
Economic History | India | More than 185 of the Fortune 500 companies outsource their software requirements from Indian software houses. (references) |
Malaysia | Most companies prefer to outsource their WebSite development, and choose to maintain the WebSite on their own. (references) | |
India | Thus, Ford and GM have set up car assembly plants in India and often outsource the non-critical parts in the country. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Outsource" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Outsource" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Outsource International, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "outsource"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Swedish | Lämna Ut Egen Verksamhet (outsourcing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Outsource" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: outsoure, outsourse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: courteous. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: coutures, outcurse, outscore. | |
-2 letters: cooters, couters, couture, scooter, scouter. | |
-3 letters: cerous, cooers, cooter, corset, coster, course, courts, couter, crouse, cruets, cruset, curets, eructs, escort, ouster, outers, rectos, rectus, recuts, roscoe, routes, scoter, sector, source, souter, stoure, suture, torose, torous, truces, uterus. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cooer, coots, cores, corse, coset, cotes, court, crest, cruet, cruse, crust. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: courthouse. | |
+2 letters: courteously, courthouses, outproduces. | |
+3 letters: countercoups, discourteous, monocultures, overcautious. | |
+4 letters: courteousness, outreproduces. | |
+5 letters: discourteously, superconductor. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 75 74 73 6F 75 72 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..- - ... --- ..- .-. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110101 01110100 01110011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O u t s o u r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0075 0074 0073 006F 0075 0072 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498786858187846971 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | engelsk |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Company Usage 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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