Meaning & use
reshoring
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Meaning
noununcountablebusiness
The process of bringing a company's production or services back to its home country.
Grammar: Uncountable; used with the, as in the reshoring of jobs. Not used with an or an.
Patterns
- reshoring of something
- reshoring trend
- reshoring strategy
The reshoring of manufacturing has created new jobs in the region.
Many firms see reshoring as a way to shorten supply chains.
Government subsidies have encouraged reshoring in the tech industry.
Common combinations
- reshoring of jobs
- The reshoring of jobs has been slow but steady.
- reshoring trend
- The reshoring trend accelerated during the pandemic.
- reshoring strategy
- The company announced a reshoring strategy for its electronics plants.
- encourage reshoring
- Tax breaks are designed to encourage reshoring.
- reshoring initiative
- The reshoring initiative aims to bring back textile production.
Synonyms and how they differ
- onshoring
- Onshoring is very similar but often focuses on moving work to the same country rather than back to it.
- insourcing
- Insourcing means doing work internally instead of outsourcing, not necessarily moving it to the home country.
- nearshoring
- Nearshoring means moving work to a nearby country, not necessarily the home country.
Opposites
Word family
- reshore verb
- To bring production or services back to the home country.
- reshored adjective
- Describing something that has been brought back to the home country.
Commonly confused: reshoring or offshoring? reshoring or rehiring?
reshoring vs offshoring
Offshoring means moving work to another country, the opposite of reshoring.
reshoring vs rehiring
Rehiring means employing people again, not moving production back home.
Practice
What does reshoring mean?
Choose one answer.
Reshoring is the opposite of offshoring: it means bringing production or services back to the home country. Option 0 describes offshoring; option 2 describes rehiring; option 3 describes downsizing.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “reshoring”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.