Look up: outsourcing

1. Outsourcing
   The practice of purchasing a significant percentage of intermediate components from outside suppliers.
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2. Outsourcing
   1. Performance outside a firm or plant of a production activity that was previously done inside. 2. Manufacture of inputs to a production process, or a part of a process, in another location, especially in another country. 3. Another term for fragmentation.
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3. Outsourcing
   Awarding a contract to a private, public or voluntary sector organisation to supply a service previously run by a public sector body such as a council or hospital.
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4. Outsourcing
   Subcontracting a certain business operation to an outside firm instead of doing it in house.
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5. Outsourcing
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6. Outsourcing
   The contracting out of work that was previously done within an organisation to an external provider....more on Outsourcing
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7. outsourcing
   the buying of parts of a product to be assembled elsewhere as in purchasing cheap foreign parts rather than manufacturing them at home Category: Commerce - movement of goods • 1)in car industry jargon:buying a part from another company rather than making it oneself;2)securing information...
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8. Outsourcing
   The concept of handing over part of one`s business to a third party vendor so that they take responsibility for it. The reason for doing this is that the vendor is likely to be able to do it cheaper and perhaps even better. The outsourcing of IT services is popular. See Off Shoring and Near Shoring.
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9. outsourcing
   work arrangement made by an employer who hires an outside contractor to perform work that could be done by company personnel. Outsourcing has been a ... [9 related articles]
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10. Outsourcing
    Purchasing a significant percentage of intermediate components from outside suppliers.
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11. Outsourcing
    The act of purchasing a large percentage of materials/services from outside suppliers. Discover What It`s Like to Live Easy With EquiTrend
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12. Outsourcing
    1. Performance outside a firm or plant of a production activity that was previously done inside. 2. Manufacture of inputs to a production process, or a part of a process, in another location, especially in another country. 3. Another term for fragmentation.
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13. outsourcing
    Outsourcing (or contracting out) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that is often made to lower costs or fo...
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14. Outsourcing
    The process of utilizing non-employees to perform manufacturing, carrier and warehousing functions. See 3PL.
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15. Outsourcing
    Contracting some or all call centre services to an outside company.
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16. Outsourcing
    Organisation pays to have some of its work done by another organisation.
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17. outsourcing
    (business) Paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform, e.g. software development. (1995-03-28)
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18. Outsourcing
    `Outsourcing` or `sub-servicing` often refers to the process of contracting to a third-party.<ref name="ven">--> Overview: A precise definition of outsourcing has yet to be agreed upon. The term is used inconsistently. However, outsourcing is often viewed as involving the contracting ou...
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