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Outsourcing vs Output - What's the difference?

outsourcing | output |

As nouns the difference between outsourcing and output

is that outsourcing is outsourcing (transfer business) while output is (economics) production; quantity produced, created, or completed.

As a verb output is

(economics) to produce, create, or complete.

outsourcing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • The transfer of a business function to an external service provider

    • Antonyms

    * insourcing

    See also

    * botsourcing * crowdsourcing

    output

    English

    (wikipedia output)

    Noun

  • (economics) Production; quantity produced, created, or completed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (computing) Data sent out of the computer, as to output device such as a monitor or printer.

    • Related terms

    * input

    Verb

  • (economics) to produce, create, or complete.
    • We output 1400 units last year.
  • (computing) to send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer.
    • When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.

    Anagrams

    * English verbs with base form identical to past participle