body shopping

noun

The practice of consultancy firms recruiting workers (generally in the information technology sector) to contract their services out on a tactical short- to medium-term basis.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounbody shopping (uncountable)
  1. uncountablelabourbusinessThe practice of consultancy firms recruiting workers (generally in the information technology sector) to contract their services out on a tactical short- to medium-term basis.

    In body shopping, the client hires a consultant to do a task that he or she cannot do because of time or resource pressures. […] A client resorts to body shopping when deadlines are tight or there are not enough people to undertake the task in the time available; […].

    2016, Raj Aseervatham, You're the Boss: Growing and Selling a Successful Consulting Firm, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 11
Cite this entry
APA

body shopping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20shopping

MLA

“body shopping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20shopping. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “body shopping,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/body%20shopping.

Source: body shopping on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.