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onshoring

British  
/ ˈɒnˌʃɔːrɪŋ /

noun

  1. the practice of employing white-collar workers from abroad

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Detroit automaker also expects an additional $1 billion to $1.5 billion in costs tied to software, supply-chain investments and U.S. production onshoring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

McKinsey’s Kelkar called it “impossible” to abide by the FCC’s restrictions without onshoring actuator manufacturing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Idaho-based Micron Technology has asked the Trump administration not to let Apple use Chinese chips, arguing that such a move would harm domestic production and hurt the White House’s goal of onshoring semiconductor manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Tariffs and the push toward onshoring further put upward pressure on domestic prices, another reversal from the 1990s.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

The other big theme is industrials — alive-and-well U.S. onshoring and data-center building.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 4, 2026

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