body shop
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Pronunciation
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[edit]body shop (plural body shops)
- (US) A workshop in which damage to the bodywork of cars is repaired.
- Synonym: panel beaters
- A consultancy that recruits workers (generally in information technology) in order to contract out their services on a tactical short- to mid-term basis.
- 2013, Vivek Wadhwa, The Immigrant Exodus, page 53:
- Flouting employment discrimination laws, unethical body shops blatantly advertise in US publications for jobs that clearly target foreign nationals.
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