Definitions for outsource
ˈaʊtˌsɔrs, -ˌsoʊrsout·source

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1. outsourceverb

   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"

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1. outsourceverb

   To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of an entire business function to a third-party service provider.

   They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.

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1. outsource

   Outsourcing is an agreement in which one company hires another company to be responsible for a planned or existing activity which otherwise is or could be carried out internally, i.e. in-house, and sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another. The term outsourcing, which came from the phrase outside resourcing, originated no later than 1981. The concept, which The Economist says has "made its presence felt since the time of the Second World War", often involves the contracting of a business process (e.g., payroll processing, claims processing), operational, and/or non-core functions, such as manufacturing, facility management, call center/call center support. The practice of handing over control of public services to private enterprises (privatization), even if conducted on a limited, short-term basis, may also be described as outsourcing.Outsourcing includes both foreign and domestic contracting, and sometimes includes offshoring (relocating a business function to a distant country) or nearshoring (transferring a business process to a nearby country). Offshoring and outsourcing are not mutually inclusive; one can exist without the other. They can be intertwined (offshore outsourcing), and can be individually or jointly, partially or completely reversed, in methods including those known as reshoring, inshoring, and insourcing.

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1. outsource

   Outsourcing is the practice of hiring an external company or individual, either domestically or internationally, to handle certain business activities or tasks. These can include functions like customer service, manufacturing, software development, or accounting procedures. The aim of outsourcing is often to reduce costs, access skilled expertise, streamline business operations, or free up internal resources.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of outsource in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of outsource in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of outsource in a Sentence

1. Darren Huston:

   [W]e don’t treat customer service as a cost center . . . and we don’t outsource customer service to save money. We apply the same rigorous hiring standards in that department as in any other function. We strongly believe that our service centers are a critical part of the customer experience and that if something goes wrong and we’re able to fix it, we’ll have that customer for life. And our data confirms that.” - Darren Huston

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   It all sounded good but what it was really about was tying the hands of regulators and turning loose big banks and giant international corporations to do whatever they wanted to do: turning them loose to rig the market and reduce competition; turning them loose to outsource more jobs; turning them loose to load up on more risks and then hide behind taxpayer guarantees; turning them loose to sell more mortgages and credit cards that cheated American families.

3. Brian Fitzpatrick:

   We simply cannot outsource our public safetyand national security to foreign nations, we must reconstitute our health care and public safety supply chain back to the United States.

4. Lindsey Graham:

   The only way you can protect America from another 9/11 is to destroy the caliphate, go in on the ground as part of a regional army, we can't outsource this.

5. Michael Orcutt:

   I like to do things the right way, and having these people around gives me all the resources I need, i don’t have to be the smartest tool in the shed. I’m a collaborator. If you outsource, I think you’re giving up control to firms who aren’t necessarily looking out for your interests as much.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=outsource
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Outsource
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsource
4. ^ ChatGPT
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