outsourcing

See also: Outsourcing

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

outsourcing

1. present participle and gerund 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

Derived terms

• open outsourcing

Descendants

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

Translations

transfer business

• Arabic: تَعْهِيد m (taʕhīd) أَوْتْسُورْسِينْغ m (ʔawtsūrsīnḡ)
• Armenian: աութսորսինգ (hy) (autʻsorsing), 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
• Icelandic: útvistun f, utankaup n pl
• 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

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. outsourcing

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing 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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

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