outsourcing

outsourcing

See also: Outsourcing

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtˌsɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/

Verb

outsourcing

1. present participle of outsource

Noun

outsourcing (countable and uncountable, plural outsourcings)

1. The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

Antonyms

• insourcing

Coordinate terms

• offshoring

Descendants

• → Danish: outsourcing
• → German: Outsourcing
• → Italian: outsourcing
• → Polish: outsourcing
• → Portuguese: outsourcing
• → Spanish: outsourcing

Translations

transfer business

Arabic: تَعْهِيد‎ m (taʿhīd) أَوْتْسُورْسِينْغ‎ m (ʾawtsūrsīnḡ) Armenian: աութսորսինգ (hy) (autʿsorsing), արտապատվիրում (hy) (artapatvirum) Belarusian: аўтсо́рсынг m (aŭtsórsynh), аўтсо́рсынґ m (aŭtsórsyng) (rare spelling) Catalan: externalització f Chinese: Mandarin: 外包 (zh) (wàibāo), 委外 (zh) (wěiwài), 外判 (wàipàn), 外購／外购 (wàigòu) (purchase from outside) Danish: outsourcing c Dutch: uitbesteding (nl) Finnish: ulkoistaminen (fi) French: externalisation (fr) f, sous-traitance (fr) f, impartition f (Québec), outsourcing (fr) m Galician: externalización f German: Outsourcing (de) n, Auslagerung (de) f Hebrew: מיקור חוץ‎ Hindi: आउटसोर्सिंग m (āuṭsorsiṅg) Hungarian: kiszervezés (hu), erőforrás-kihelyezés, feladatkihelyezés, alvállalkozásba kiadás Italian: outsourcing (it) m, esternalizzazione (it), subappalto (it) m Japanese: アウトソーシング (ja) (autosōshingu) Korean: 아웃소싱 (autsosing) Marathi: बाह्यस्रोत (bāhyasrot) Persian: برون‌سپاری‎ (borun-sepâri) Polish: outsourcing m Portuguese: terceirização (pt) f, externalização f, outsourcing (pt) m Russian: аутсо́рсинг (ru) m (autsórsing), сда́ча в субподря́д f (sdáča v subpodrjád), подря́д (ru) m (podrjád), субподря́д (ru) m (subpodrjád) Serbo-Croatian: izmještanje n, izmeštanje n Spanish: externalización f, tercerización f Tamil: அவுட்சோர்ஸிங் (avuṭcōrsiṅ) Ukrainian: аутсо́рсинг m (autsórsynh), аутсо́рсинґ m (autsórsyng) Vietnamese: thuê ngoài (vi)

See also

• botsourcing
• crowdsourcing

Anagrams

• outscouring

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English outsourcing.

Noun

outsourcing

1. (chiefly uncountable) outsourcing

Declension

Declension of outsourcing

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	outsourcing	outsourcingen	outsourcinger	outsourcingerne
genitive	outsourcings	outsourcingens	outsourcingers	outsourcingernes

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. outsourcing

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awtˈsɔr.siŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɔrsiŋk
• Syllabification: out‧sour‧cing

Noun

outsourcing m inan

1. (business, management) outsourcing

Declension

Declension of outsourcing

	singular
nominative	outsourcing
genitive	outsourcingu
dative	outsourcingowi
accusative	outsourcing
instrumental	outsourcingiem
locative	outsourcingu
vocative	outsourcingu

Derived terms

adjective

• outsourcingowy

 

Further reading

• outsourcing in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• outsourcing in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awˈtsɔɾ.sĩɡ/

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. outsourcing (transfer of a business function to an external service provider)

   Synonyms: terceirização, externalização

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /autˈsoɾθin/ [au̯t̪ˈsoɾ.θĩn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /autˈsoɾsin/ [au̯t̪ˈsoɾ.sĩn]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -oɾθin
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -oɾsin

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. outsourcing

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.