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body shopping

British  

noun

  1. informal  the purchasing of manpower from another country, usu. one where wages are cheap

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Michael Pickering says the big unanswered question about Ramsay Smith was whether he was "body shopping".

From The Guardian

Tata Consultancy’s expertise at so-called “body shopping,” or using low-cost IT workers to replace more expensive labor in developed countries, helped it land contracts with Deutsche Bank AG, Hilton Worldwide Inc. and Air Liquide SA last fiscal year.

From BusinessWeek

India’s $88.1 billion IT services and outsourcing industries were built on so-called body shopping.

From BusinessWeek