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outsourcing

VERB
contract out
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Its profit isn’t up as much as sales, because of marketing costs, tariffs and a shift to outsourcing more of its order fulfillment, after mostly using distribution centers it owned and operated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

She said outsourcing patient appointments had created financial incentives which were potentially "a risk to clinical standards".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

This is converging with concerns about youth mental health, the outsourcing of thinking to artificial intelligence, and the proliferation of social media and smartphones impacting attention spans and self-esteem.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

More and more American and European companies are outsourcing significant research and development tasks to India, Russia, and China.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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