shoring

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And finally capital goes to where the surplus labor is by off-shoring, and this was facilitated by two things.

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  1. noun The act or operation of propping with shores.
  2. noun A system of supporting shores.

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  • The shale would like some shoring, and so parts of it are caved in in there. —  Stewart Brand on the Long Now
  • "If we had enough shoring, the tunnel wouldn't have collapsed Ah!" —  DRAGON'S KIN
  • And finally capital goes to where the surplus labor is by off-shoring, and this was facilitated by two things. —  CounterPunch
  • The fact that we and other global firms are in India to leverage the talent with cost advantage is a testimony to the benefits of outsourcing and off-shoring, 'an IBM India official said. —  AndhraCafe.com
  • The content goes from the basics to advanced topics such as off-shoring, anti - circumvention, open source business models, user-created content, reverse engineering, mobile media distribution, web and game development, mash-ups, web widgets, and massively multiplayer games. —  Fulldls.com
 

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  1. apparently from shore + -ing.
  2. Verbal noun of shore, v.
 

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/ˈʃoʊrɪŋ/
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