reshore

English

Etymology 1

re- +‎ shore, after offshore.

Verb

reshore (third-person singular simple present reshores, present participle reshoring, simple past and past participle reshored)

1. 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

• reshoring

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

reshore

1. simple past of reshear

Anagrams

• Hereros