reshore

To transfer a business operation back to its country of origin.

Verb form of, past

  1. simple past of reshear

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb Entry 2

  1. To transfer a business operation back to its country of origin.
    • At Frog Bikes, one of the Welsh factory’s newest employees, 26-year-old Neal Brookfield, is hopeful the plant and other moves to reshore manufacturing will create more secure work for his generation. - 2016 August 19,...
    • Among the proposed responses to these problems are to “reshore” or “friend-shore” production and to enact “industrial policies to increase country capacities to produce”. - 2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022...

Origin

From re- + shore, after offshore.

Forms

reshores reshoring reshored

Related

reshoring