Meaning & use
resourcing
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“resourcing” is a form of “resource”. See that entry for the full set of meanings.
Meanings
noununcountablebusiness
The work of planning for and providing the people, money, equipment and time that a project needs.
Grammar: No plural and no article: resourcing is a problem for this team.
Patterns
- resourcing for something
- resourcing of something
Poor resourcing was blamed for the project's delays.
The meeting focused on staffing and resourcing for next year.
Hospitals say better resourcing is needed in rural areas.
verbtransitivebusiness
Providing a project, school or team with the money, staff and equipment it needs.
Grammar: -ing form of the verb resource; takes an object: resourcing the new program.
Patterns
- resourcing something
- resourcing something with something
She is resourcing the new program with experienced teachers.
The council is resourcing the library more generously this year.
Managers are resourcing the launch with extra developers.
Word forms
| base form | resource |
|---|---|
| third person singular | resources |
| past tense / past participle | resourced |
| -ing form | resourcing |
Common combinations
- adequate resourcing
- Adequate resourcing is key to the success of the plan.
- resourcing issues
- Resourcing issues delayed the release.
- staffing and resourcing
- The report covers staffing and resourcing.
- resourcing plan
- We need a resourcing plan before the project begins.
- lack of resourcing
- A lack of resourcing hurt the school.
Synonyms and how they differ
- funding
- Funding refers to money only, while resourcing covers people, equipment and time as well.
- staffing
- Staffing covers only the people, so it is narrower than resourcing.
- provisioning
- Provisioning means supplying what is needed, often technical or physical goods, and sounds less like management language.
- allocation
- Allocation is the act of dividing resources among uses, while resourcing includes finding them too.
Opposites
Word family
- resource noun
- a supply of money, people or materials
- resourceful adjective
- good at finding ways to solve problems
- resourced adjective
- supplied with what is needed
- under-resourced adjective
- not given enough money or staff
- resourcefulness noun
- the ability to find clever solutions
Commonly confused: resourcing or sourcing?
resourcing vs sourcing
Sourcing means finding where to buy goods or materials, while resourcing means providing the people and money for a project.
Practice
The school's results improved after the district increased ____ for teachers and equipment.
Choose one answer.
Resourcing means supplying staff, money and equipment. Sourcing is finding suppliers, and the other two are unrelated words.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “resourcing”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.