Outsourced

Word OUTSOURCED
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What do we mean by outsourced?

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

When a company hires another company to do some aspect of its work for it. Examples of this include (but are not limited to): * Stores using another companies cleaning services for cleaning its floors etc (rather then having employees of their own hired as full time cleaners). * An ISP using a third party for its e-mail services rather then using servers of their own. * A company in need of call centre services using a third person company rather then building a call centre of its own. Companies often outsource to save money. However, it's also possible they want to concentrate on their main service and allow another company to worry about secondary ones (ie, companies whose main service are those secondary ones). Outsourcing unfortunatly costs jobs domestically when companies outsource overseas. This is why people dislike it so much. Urban Dictionary

An easy method for corporations to maximize their profits and avoid the unions at the same time. Basically, it involves moving one's business to another part of the world where people will willingly under slavelike conditions and for 1/10 the pay of a Poverty-Class American worker. See outsource and globalization for more definitions. Urban Dictionary

Corporate use of slave labor in third world countries ruled by dictators, for the express purpose of avoiding American taxes. Urban Dictionary

Verb: to make profit by screwing your employees, your customers, and your country while at the same time lowering the quality of the work performed. Highly touted and promoted in articles by authors with Indian surnames. Urban Dictionary

Cheating on your partner, typically when your current partner doesn't give you what you need. Urban Dictionary

The word "President" Bush uses to describe you getting your ass canned at work so that your job can go overseas. Urban Dictionary

The process of hiring a call center to perform customer service and/or technical support, or other support tasks, obstensibly because it is cheaper than having an in-house support team. Companies also outsource to preserve their reputation, as they can use the hand of god to fire any call center employee who isn't performing in line with their vision without anyone knowing; can hire and fire employees en mass with no regrets. Urban Dictionary

To send Jobs to another country, making our county vulnerable to Socialistic influences. Urban Dictionary

The next logical step in the process of globalisation. Made possible due to large differences in prosperity and income worldwide. The first move towards a more equal globality. Urban Dictionary

A thing Trators do all so thjey can make more money, Anybody who supports them is eith brain dead, or in league with them. Urban Dictionary

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The word "outsourced" in example sentences

To avoid serving as a bank, the label outsourced the transactions to PayPal, which will convert purchases into dollars for U.S. customers. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

John and Jane gives us surprising access to young Indians, the voices on the telephone who perform what we call outsourced jobs; ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, the winner himself said casually that the actual building was "outsourced" -- that is, it was just viewed as a project space and a set of tools, not a world with a public, and a public space that would interact over time. ❋ Unknown (2005)

India is the leader in outsourced baby making but they aren’t the only country that is in the business. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We offer the export of conversation for conversation we managed so called outsourced conversation, but for individual users, this is a little more tricky to understand what would actually make sense. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post has a funny take on the notion of outsourced journalism, taking off on a real story — about Indian journalists covering town meetings in Pasadena — that we blogged about here. ❋ Unknown (2007)

MIC said very few companies would recall their outsourced businesses and that decreasing the cost of IT services had become one of their major goals. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Poor guys [unemployed] because his [employer] outsourced his job [overseas]. ❋ Guest (2005)

[Outsourcing] is creating a major economic boom, but [piss-poor] levels of domestic job growth because the Third World has all the employees the corporations need. Oh, and the executives are [pocketing] the profits too. ❋ Sarcastic (2004)

No wonder so many corporate executives are billionaires! If not for [outsourcing] and [free trade], they would have to pay their fair share of taxes and end up mere [millionaires]! ❋ Meow2u3 (2007)

When she called the [unemployment office] to [inquire] about her benefits she was [outraged] to discover she was speaking to someone in India. The American job had been outsourced. ❋ Noah Webster, Jr. (2005)

[buddy]: 'outsourcing again?' he: 'yeah, she [swallows]...' also, buddy: 'outsourcing again?' she: 'yeah, he has a car' ❋ Little-miss Can't Do Wrong (2007)

[President Bush] out sourced 3 [million] American [jobs] (So far) in office ❋ PG (2004)

[My job] at Foo [Inc] was outsourced, so I went to work for the company they outsourced to at greatly [reduced] pay. ❋ Spirit Bear (2004)

Outsource [Mitt] to [Iran]! ❋ Lennie Mahler Killer (2012)

"I outsourced my [assembly line]..." "[Good for you]" ❋ S.I. (2005)

Outsourcing [hurts] [the USA] and helps [China] ❋ Simon Hawthorne (2006)

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