offshore

1. (transitive) To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.Examples: "The McKinsey Global Institute says that 750,000 American service jobs have been “offshored” out of total U.S. jobs of about 140 million."; "India has become the leading destination for offshored services."; "Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports."transitive