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Origin vs Outsource - What's the difference?

origin | outsource |

As a noun origin

is the beginning of something.

As a verb outsource is

(chiefly|us|business|management) to transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.

origin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The beginning of something.
  • The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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  • (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
  • (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
  • (cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
  • (in the plural) Ancestry.
  • Synonyms

    * (source) source * (mathematics) zero vector

    Antonyms

    * (source) destination * (anatomy) insertion

    See also

    * provenance

    outsource

    English

    (Outsourcing)

    Verb

    (outsourc)
  • (chiefly, US, business, management) To transfer the management and/or day-to-day execution of a business function to a third-party service provider.
  • They decided to outsource the design and manufacture of the system to a vendor.

    Synonyms

    * farm out, subcontract

    Derived terms

    * outsourceable * outsourcer

    Anagrams

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