Offshored

Word OFFSHORED
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Definitions and meanings of "Offshored"

What do we mean by offshored?

To use foreign labor to substitute for local labor.

Losing a good paying job to a non-North American country often resulting in cost savings to greedy corporations at the expense of quality. Urban Dictionary

1) n. The place in Norway to work. 2) adj. Unavailable for drinking/partying due to being on a rig. 3) v. Tricked, conned, or otherwise persuaded into going offshore. Urban Dictionary

Offshoring is a practice where companies pay foreign workers 1/3 the pay for work (such as software development). What compaines fail to understand is that it takes the offshore workers 4 times as long to perform their work, and the resulting product is sub-par at best. Urban Dictionary

The sending of work from the developed world to the cheaper destinations or developing world like Philipines,India... Earlier the offshore meant just sending the manual software IT work to cheaper destinations.Now its the quality work or R&D center.Typical cases been MICROSOFT,ADOBE and so on.. Urban Dictionary

When incompetent overpaid fuckbitches like Kyle here fail to make enough money for their employers to make it worthwhile for said employers to pay for their websurfing and porn searching, and are then bangalored in favor of even more incompetent but underpaid fuckbitches being paid an eighth as much, the event is called offshoring. Urban Dictionary

When Asia, India, Pakistan, and all those gay third-world countries steal jobs from America. They are not as skilled as the Americans they stole the job from, and are too stupid to realize they are getting paid very little compared to Americans. Urban Dictionary

The practice of leaving the country for the explicit purpose of engaging in sex. Urban Dictionary

N. A Christmas Eve or Christmas Day spent offshore on a rig or platform in Norway. Usually celebrated with a large, elaborate meal and boxes of chocolates. Urban Dictionary

A mother who shops at Pier 1, Cost Plus, or other such imported home furnishings stores so as to make herself appear more worldly Urban Dictionary

A euphemism for anal sex. Urban Dictionary

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The word "offshored" in example sentences

Already there is a market in offshored medicine from the socialized medical countries in Europe. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If we think about the tremendous amount of savings Americans get from imported labor-intensive goods, we can see the tremendous possibility of "offshored" medicine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hey Prez, why don't you force "global companies" that are headquartered here in the U.S., to bring back the good paying corporate jobs that have been allowed to be "offshored". ❋ Unknown (2009)

The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been "offshored" out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Few if any of the "offshored" jobs will ever come back - they are gone not because of the ❋ Liamm (2010)

We have no idea how to measure the occupations being 'offshored' or what is being 'inshore.' ❋ Unknown (2009)

Manufacturing companies that "offshored" their jobs to China are now "nearshoring" those jobs to Mexico, as the North American country helps curb the high cost of shipping goods. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"offshored" (sent to workers in foreign countries)! ❋ Unknown (2009)

No matter how much education you get, your job will get offshored at some point in your life and you will get knocked back down to the bottom rung again in a different industry UNLESS YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dukie, if your rich buddies love America so much, why have they offshored so much of American manufacturing? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I hate the term 'task force', which inevitably gets trotted out by politicians and others who've been dazzled in the headlights, but I think there's a role for Limerick-based entrepreneurs to play in creating a bottom-up 'task force' which can offer real help to people who want to create the kind of enterprises which will generate long-term employment and not get offshored at the hint of another economic downturn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the US has offshored almost 1/3 of its economy - catastrophic economic results occur. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fact that production of some electronic parts has been offshored to Thailand signals how the destruction of Japan's industrial base is proceeding apace. ❋ Chester Dawson (2011)

Please remember you have time to attend tea parties because those same companies using you now offshored or outsourced your jobs in Asia!!! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shared ownership and commitment to quality, which means that the software developers are more likely to make contributions to the project that matter over the long term (in contrast to, say, offshored software development, where developers are only likely to do the tasks they are immediately paid for); ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyway, jobs aren't being offshored because of weaker IP laws in foreign countries, so I don't see your point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The US economy is highly interrelated - as real estate associations and small manufacturing associations have finally realized (they've been recently questioning all this ITAA pap about why offshoring is so great when the vacancy rates have skyrocketed and the small mfr. 's main customers have been offshored, etc.). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Having to take 2-4 years off work to train is worrisome, but I'll just wait until my job gets offshored where I'm at. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"...no I'm not with Microsoft any more, my job got [offshored] to [Bangalore]. I hear my old customers are frustrated by the thick accents and [out of touch] nature." ❋ Mangicake (2009)

1) I work offshore, we watch [plasma TV's] on coffee break. 2) I was offshore for the last 4 weekends. 3) I was supposed to be home for the holidays, but I got [offshored]. Looks like this year I'll have an [offshore christmas] instead. ❋ Vaeren (2006)

Local programmer makes $60.00 / hour. The company decides to use offshoring to send the work to India for $20.00 / hour. Instead of taking 8 hours to write a program locally (for a total of $[480].00) they [offshore] the work and it takes 32 hours (for a total of $[640].00) and the resulting program has text like: "For more instruction be to clicking the yes button." Pay more, get worse products, and take longer to get it done. ❋ Joe Blow Programmer (2007)

Man!! I am [jobless] since my work has been offshorized to India. I have got awesome hike,I am owning the offshorized work of [Adobe] for [cloud computing] in India. ❋ Zatsure (2013)

A: I hear IBM is offshoring 11,000 jobs to that shithole India. B: Afraid some [Indian's] going to do your job as well as you at [an eighth] of your salary? A: U-S-A! U-S-A! DOWN WITH [GLOBALIZATION]! ❋ Job Thief (2006)

[Offshoring] [sucks]. ❋ Kyle (2004)

"We're [headed] to [Costa Rica] because we [heard that] there is great opportunity for offshore drilling there." ❋ Srini Balasubrian (2008)

My [crew] and I were [running] an [RST] job, so we had an offshore christmas. ❋ Vaeren (2006)

Example- person 1: "Have you been to [Stacy's] house? It's in a track neighborhood but it's full of obscure scented candles and Native American artwork like a [Pier] 1 [catalog]." person 2: "She must have an offshore mom." ❋ Kit-KAT_2o1o (2009)

Bill: "Hey [Larry], [you going] to do some [offshore drilling] tonight?" Larry: "Yes, I love anal." ❋ BooKaki69 (2019)

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