0 the practice of basing a business or part of a business in a different country, usually because this involves paying less tax or other costs:
1 the practice of a company having work done in another country, often because costs are lower there:
Some European governments are anxious to limit offshoring.
He used tax breaks to discourage the offshoring of jobs.
She claimed that offshoring was the only way for most companies to grow to a significant size.
However, it is not a case of protectionism versus free trade but of quality of service versus as yet unproven levels of savings from offshoring call centre work.
They also thought that offshoring would mean losing their most vital form of communication with their customers, which they believe to be a good way of generating business.
Offshoring is an innovative business process.
Financial savings from lower international labor rates is a big motivation for outsourcing/offshoring.
One issue offshoring of technical services has brought more attention to is the value of education as an alleged solution to trade-related displacements.
