reshore

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verb

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

Scrabble 10

Meanings

reshore1

verbreshore (third-person singular simple present reshores, present participle reshoring, simple past and past participle reshored)

present singular third person reshores · participle present reshoring · participle past reshored · past reshored

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

    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 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian
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    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, Katie Allen, “Frog Bikes bring manufacturing back home to beat the business cycle”, in The Guardian

reshore2

verb
  1. pastsimple past of reshear

Origin

reshore · verb

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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APA

reshore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshore

MLA

“reshore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshore. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reshore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reshore.

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