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Offshoring

The practice of a company in one country arranging for people in another country to do work
for it

Example usage from an FT article:

For the past few decades, private equity companies have followed a lucrative, if somewhat brutal, playbook of buying companies, firing employees and offshoring operations to China.

Excerpt from "How AI may become the new offshoring"

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