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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Outsourcing |
Business | The buying of parts of a product to be assembled elsewhere as in purchasing cheap foreign parts rather than manufacturing them at home. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"Outsourcing" became a popular buzzword in the 1990s, but few understand or agree on its meaning. The concept started with Ross Perot when he founded Electronic Data Systems in the 1950s. EDS would tell a prospective client, "You are familiar with designing, manufacturing and selling [furniture], but we're familiar with managing information technology. We can sell you the information technology you need and you pay us monthly for the service with a minimum commitment of two to ten years." Outsourcing as generally defined by those organizations that deliver such services, requires turning over management responsibility for running a segment of business. In theory, this business segment is not mission-critical, but practice dictates otherwise. Outsourcing business is characterized by expertise not inherent to the core of the client organization.
A related term is out-tasking: turning over a narrowly-defined segment of business to another business, typically on an annual contract, or sometimes a shorter one. This usually involves continued direct or indirect management and decision-making by the client of the out-tasking business. Buying products from another entity is not outsourcing or out-tasking, but merely a vendor relationship. Buying services from a provider is not necessarily outsourcing or out-tasking.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Outsourcing."
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Also, outsourcing IT services is very popular in Singapore. (references) | |
Advances in technology have played a crucial role in making outsourcing possible. (references) | ||
There are prospects for the latter capability to be upgraded, possibly through outsourcing. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chile | Data centers and data outsourcing are available and are a growing market. (references) |
Australia | A trend common to a number of sectors has been the increasing use of outsourcing. (references) | |
Sweden | Here the gain can be explained by increased demand generally in the outsourcing sector. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uruguay | Although such cooperatives do not necessarily affect workers' social insurance and other public benefits, this outsourcing can reduce workers' job security, result in a loss of seniority, and weaken the power of trade unions and of collective bargaining. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "OUTSOURCING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "OUTSOURCING" is used about 15 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 (-ing form) | 73.33% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Compu-Clearing Outsourcing Limited |
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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 "OUTSOURCING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | outsourcing, udlicitering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | outsourcing, de invoer van onderdelen uit het buitenland. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | alihankkijan käyttäminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | transfert de la production à l'étranger, transfert à des sources extérieures, sous-traitance, recours à l'extérieur, externalisation, approvisionnement de sources extérieures, achat de pièces chez d'autres producteurs, achat de pièces à l'étranger, achat de composants à l'étranger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Outsourcing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | outsourcing, esternalizzazione (externalization), acquisto di componenti all'estero. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 하ì²í•¨. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | outsourcingay externalização. (various references) выдавать выдаваемый. (various references) outsourcing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OUTSOURCING": outsourcings. (additional references) | |
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"OUTSOURCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: outsorcing, outsoucing, outsourceing, outsoursing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OUTSOURCING" (pronounced ou'tsô"rsing) |
| 6 | -s ô" r s i ng | sourcing. |
| 5 | -ô" r s i ng | coursing, divorcing, endorsing, enforcing, forcing, horsing, reinforcing. |
| 4 | -r s i ng | parsing, piercing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, overproducing, pacing, passing, perplexing, piecing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: contiguous, outcursing, outscoring. | |
-2 letters: congruous. | |
-3 letters: contours, cornutos, coursing, courting, croutons, crusting, goitrous, outgrins, outrings, outscorn, roosting, rousting, ructions, ructious, scooting, scouring, scouting, sourcing, suturing, tourings. | |
-4 letters: cistron, citrons, citrous, cogitos, congius, congous, consort, contour, cornuto, cortins, costing, crotons, crouton, curious, cursing, gnostic, incrust, nitroso, nitrous, nocuous, octrois, ousting, outgrin, outguns, outings, outring, outrung. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-o-o-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: outsourcings. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Company Usage | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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