outsourcing

See also: Outsourcing

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtˌsɔː.sɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtˌsɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtsɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ
• Hyphenation: out‧sourc‧ing

Verb

outsourcing

1. present participle and gerund of outsource

Noun

outsourcing (countable and uncountable, plural outsourcings)

1. (business, management) The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.

   Antonym: insourcing

   Coordinate term: offshoring

Derived terms

• open outsourcing

Related terms

• botsourcing
• crowdsourcing
• homesourcing

Descendants

• → Danish: outsourcing
• → German: Outsourcing
• → Italian: outsourcing
• → Polish: outsourcing
• → Portuguese: outsourcing
• → Russian: аутсо́рсинг (autsórsing)
• → Spanish: outsourcing
• → Ukrainian: аутсо́рсинг (autsórsynh)

Translations

transfer of business function to external party

• Arabic: تَعْهِيد m (taʕhīd) أَوْتْسُورْسِينْغ m (ʔawtsūrsīnḡ)
• Armenian: աութսորսինգ (hy) (autʻsorsing), արտապատվիրում (hy) (artapatvirum)
• Belarusian: аўтсо́рсынг m (awtsórsynh), (rare) аўтсо́рсынґ m (awtsórsyng)
• Catalan: externalització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外包 (zh) (wàibāo), 委外 (zh) (wěiwài), 外判 (zh) (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, (Québec) impartition f, 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, subcontratación f
• Tamil: அவுட்சோர்ஸிங் (avuṭcōrsiṅ)
• Ukrainian: аутсо́рсинг m (autsórsynh), аутсо́рсинґ m (autsórsyng)
• Vietnamese: thuê ngoài (vi)

Anagrams

• outscouring

Danish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Noun

outsourcing

1. (uncountable, business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

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. (business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

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 (transfer of business function to external party)

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^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /awtˈsɔɾ.sĩɡ/

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. (business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) terceirização, (Portugal) externalização

Further reading

• “outsourcing”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “outsourcing”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English outsourcing.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

outsourcing m (uncountable)

1. (business, management) outsourcing (transfer of business function to external party)

   Synonyms: externalización, tercerización

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.