reshoring
English edit
Etymology edit
From re- + shoring, after offshoring.
Noun edit
reshoring (uncountable)
- The transfer of a business operation back to its country of origin.
- 2011 June 29, Sheridan Prasso, “Why we left our factories in China”, in Fortune[1], archived from the original on 2011-09-02:
- Sleek Audio is part of a trend called reshoring, in which primarily small businesses decide that China is a hassle and that they want to bring their operations closer to home, where the recession has lowered costs, created workers eager for jobs, and made it easier to justify U.S. manufacturing.
Related terms edit
- reshore (verb)