Outsource
verb
To hire people or companies from outside your own company to do work that was previously done within the company.
The company decided to outsource its customer service department to a firm in India.
Often appears as...
- outsource the production
- outsource the department
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Technical
verb
To move some aspects or processes of a business to a foreign country.
Many manufacturing companies outsource production to countries where labor is cheaper.
Often appears as...
- outsource to china
- outsource overseas
verb
To hire people or companies from outside your own company to do work that was previously done within the company.
The company decided to outsource its customer service department to a firm in India.
Often appears as...
- outsource the production
- outsource the department
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To move some aspects or processes of a business to a foreign country.
Many manufacturing companies outsource production to countries where labor is cheaper.
Often appears as...
- outsource to china
- outsource overseas
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Outsourcing can be a strategic decision to cut costs or access expertise.
To improve efficiency, we will outsource our IT support.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Impact
Outsourcing can affect jobs within a company, often leading to layoffs.
Employees were nervous about the decision to outsource.
Pro Tip 3/3Project-Based
Companies often outsource specific projects, not just roles or departments.
We'll outsource the website redesign to a digital agency.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Outsourcing can be a strategic decision to cut costs or access expertise.
To improve efficiency, we will outsource our IT support.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Impact
Outsourcing can affect jobs within a company, often leading to layoffs.
Employees were nervous about the decision to outsource.
Pro Tip 3/3Project-Based
Companies often outsource specific projects, not just roles or departments.
We'll outsource the website redesign to a digital agency.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Strategy
Outsourcing can be a strategic decision to cut costs or access expertise.
To improve efficiency, we will outsource our IT support.
Pro Tip 2/3Job Impact
Outsourcing can affect jobs within a company, often leading to layoffs.
Employees were nervous about the decision to outsource.
Pro Tip 3/3Project-Based
Companies often outsource specific projects, not just roles or departments.
We'll outsource the website redesign to a digital agency.
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How to make faster...
is a massive waste of energy. You just need to move on. When it comes to no-stakes decisions, the key is to outsource them to the universe. For example, you can whittle down your choices to just two and then flip a coin. Or try my personal favorite -- ask the watch. Assign each one of your choices to one half of your watch,
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Feats of memory anyone...
to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
thirsty for this knowledge about whatever subject. We can live in one of these two worlds. We can live in a world where our brains, the things that we know, continue to be the thing that makes us special, or a world in which we've outsourced all of that to evil supercomputers from the future like Watson.
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
to these instruments as technological scaffoldings that extend the boundaries of the brain you know you could all you could argue that we dovetail our cognitive capacities to our tools we outsource our memories to these extended minds but in all in other ways the
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Rachel Botsman: The...
on a bigger idea she later called service networking. It's essentially about how we use our online relationships to get things done in the real world. Now the way TaskRabbit works is, people outsource the tasks that they want doing, name the price
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The price of a "clean"...
equipped with three- to five-day training -- this is the qualification -- who work on nothing less than the world's rescue. National sovereignties have been outsourced to private companies, and they pass on their responsibilities to third parties.
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America’s most just...
employees who were in various parts of our facilities because we had outsourced that that we're getting less than the minimum wage and I think you know one thing that we heard in our polling supply chain issues are really important
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Feats of memory anyone...
essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us they've changed us culturally and I would argue that they've changed us cognitively having
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Machine intelligence...
to help us make better decisions. But we have to own up to our moral responsibility to judgment, and use algorithms within that framework, not as a means to abdicate and outsource our responsibilities
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Dan Dennett: Responding...
There's a lot of serendipitous convergence here. How clever it was of sheep to acquire shepherds! Think of what this got them. They could outsource all their protection from predators, food-finding
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How to make faster...
is a massive waste of energy. You just need to move on. When it comes to no-stakes decisions, the key is to outsource them to the universe. For example, you can whittle down your choices to just two and then flip a coin. Or try my personal favorite -- ask the watch. Assign each one of your choices to one half of your watch,
Video examples
Feats of memory anyone...
to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone -- that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. These technologies have made our modern world possible, but they've also changed us.
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
thirsty for this knowledge about whatever subject. We can live in one of these two worlds. We can live in a world where our brains, the things that we know, continue to be the thing that makes us special, or a world in which we've outsourced all of that to evil supercomputers from the future like Watson.
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
to these instruments as technological scaffoldings that extend the boundaries of the brain you know you could all you could argue that we dovetail our cognitive capacities to our tools we outsource our memories to these extended minds but in all in other ways the
Video examples
Rachel Botsman: The...
on a bigger idea she later called service networking. It's essentially about how we use our online relationships to get things done in the real world. Now the way TaskRabbit works is, people outsource the tasks that they want doing, name the price
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The price of a "clean"...
equipped with three- to five-day training -- this is the qualification -- who work on nothing less than the world's rescue. National sovereignties have been outsourced to private companies, and they pass on their responsibilities to third parties.
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America’s most just...
employees who were in various parts of our facilities because we had outsourced that that we're getting less than the minimum wage and I think you know one thing that we heard in our polling supply chain issues are really important
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Feats of memory anyone...
essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity these technologies have made our modern world possible but they've also changed us they've changed us culturally and I would argue that they've changed us cognitively having
Video examples
Machine intelligence...
to help us make better decisions. But we have to own up to our moral responsibility to judgment, and use algorithms within that framework, not as a means to abdicate and outsource our responsibilities
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Dan Dennett: Responding...
There's a lot of serendipitous convergence here. How clever it was of sheep to acquire shepherds! Think of what this got them. They could outsource all their protection from predators, food-finding
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Tom Steyer
American Businessman
The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and spur economic growth - all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.
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Sherrod Brown
American Politician
The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.
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Elon Musk
South African Businessman
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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Barack Obama
American President
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
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Daniel H. Pink
American Author
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
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Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.
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Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
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Jeb Bush
American Politician
I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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Barry Lam
Taiwanese Businessman
Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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Tom Steyer
American Businessman
The truth is that transitioning to clean energy like wind and solar will create millions of new, good jobs that can't be outsourced, and spur economic growth - all while avoiding the inevitable, significant damages our economy will suffer should we keep building more pipelines.
Quote examples
Michael Pollan
American Educator
When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.
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Sherrod Brown
American Politician
The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.
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Elon Musk
South African Businessman
In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.
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Barack Obama
American President
We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.
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Daniel H. Pink
American Author
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
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Luvvie Ajayi
Nigerian Author
Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.
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Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
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Jeb Bush
American Politician
I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.
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Barry Lam
Taiwanese Businessman
Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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