Crossword clues for outsource
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context chiefly US business management English) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
WordNet
v. obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out; "Many companies outsource and hire consultants rather in order to maintain a flexible workforce"
Usage examples of "outsource".
They said they were retired CIA and they worked for something called the 4627 Company, which was handling an Agency outsource contract.
I can offer immediate access to considerable specialist resources such as forensic labs and database mining, which the police have to outsource anyway.
Our reengineering efforts were trying to reduce head count and automate or outsource IT activities, which was what everyone was doing then.
It is fascinating to recall that IBM was initially praised for its ability and willingness to outsource its key technologies.
The permanent floating meatspace party Manfred is hooking up with is a strange attractor for some of the American exiles cluttering up the cities of Europe this decade not trustafarians, but honest-to-God political dissidents, draft dodgers, and terminal outsourcing victims.
What is more, by taking on the rigors of systems development itself instead of outsourcing it to third parties, as did most every other retailer, Wal-Mart brought to bear its compulsive pursuit of cost advantage to a vast new area of chain-store management.
Walton returned from a swing through Central America in 1984 worried that the outsourcing trend had gotten out of hand.
In the politically correct world of the twenty-four-hour news cycle, outsourcing gave CIA deniability.
In a mall world, outsourcing gives companies manufacturing capacity without capital costs or labor problems.
And outsourcing reduces costs by forcing suppliers to compete for contracts.
Content creators can thus concentrate on what they do best: content creation, and reduce their overhead by outsourcing the functions of distribution and relationships management.
Functions are amalgamated, outsourced, dispensed with, or created from scratch.
But even here, in the old industrial landscape, the intellectual contribution to the collective effort will likely be outsourced to roving freelancers who will maintain an ownership stake in their designs or inventions.
These groups have misleading names, like the International Wildlife Preservation Fund—that’s an Omaha-based direct-mail organization, that in turn outsources the work to Costa Rica.