insourced; insourcing; insources
: to procure (something, such as goods or services needed by a business or organization) from domestic or in-house sources rather than from foreign or outside suppliers : to contract for work, jobs, etc., to be done by in-house or domestic workers
More recently, Physicians Mutual insourced the previously outsourced administration of a particular product.—
Anne Rawland Gabriel
Anne Rawland GabrielEmployment guarantees are not the only reason to insource, and car makers are not the only companies doing it.—The Economist
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Partnerships, as always, will be a definite accelerant but a high degree of critical capability should probably be insourced given the winds of change currently sweeping across the landscape of geopolitics.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Insource.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insource. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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