reshore
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From re- + shore, after offshore.
Verb
[edit]reshore (third-person singular simple present reshores, present participle reshoring, simple past and past participle reshored)
- To transfer a business operation back to its country of origin.
- 2016 August 19, Katie Allen, “Frog Bikes bring manufacturing back home to beat the business cycle”, in The Guardian[1]:
- At Frog Bikes, one of the Welsh factory’s newest employees, 26-year-old Neal Brookfield, is hopeful the plant and other moves to reshore manufacturing will create more secure work for his generation.
- 2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Among the proposed responses to these problems are to “reshore” or “friend-shore” production and to enact “industrial policies to increase country capacities to produce”.
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]reshore