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Meaning of "body shopping" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BODY SHOPPING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BODY SHOPPING

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Body shopping is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BODY SHOPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Body shopping

Body shopping is the practice of consultancy firms recruiting information technology workers in order to contract their services out on short-term basis. Regarded as legitimate consultancy by both the companies that practice it and by the people employed, body shopping is disparaged by those IT services companies that assert that they provide real services rather than the "sham" of merely farming out professionals to overseas companies.

Definition of body shopping in the English dictionary

The definition of body shopping in the dictionary is the purchasing of manpower from another country, usu. one where wages are cheap.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BODY SHOPPING

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body repair shop
body repairs
body scanner
body scrub
body search
body shop
body snatcher
body snatching
body stocking
body swerve
body warmer
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WORDS THAT END LIKE BODY SHOPPING

camping
clipping
dripping
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home shopping
hopping
mapping
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popping
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shipping
shopping
stepping
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stripping
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tapping
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Synonyms and antonyms of body shopping in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «body shopping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BODY SHOPPING

Find out the translation of body shopping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of body shopping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «body shopping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

机身购物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

body shopping
570 millions of speakers

English

body shopping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शरीर खरीदारी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

التسوق الجسم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тело торговый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compras corpo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শরীরের কেনাকাটা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

body shopping
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Belanja badan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Körper -Shopping
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボディ·ショッピング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몸 쇼핑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Body shopping
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mua sắm cơ thể
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உடல் ஷாப்பிங்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शरीर खरेदी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Beden alışveriş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

corpo lo shopping
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciało zakupy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тіло торговий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cumpărături corp
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψώνια σώμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

liggaam shopping
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kropp handla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kroppen handle
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of body shopping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BODY SHOPPING»

The term «body shopping» is normally little used and occupies the 121.589 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BODY SHOPPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about body shopping

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BODY SHOPPING»

Discover the use of body shopping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to body shopping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the ...
Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions.
Biao Xiang, 2011
2
Body shopping: the economy fuelled by flesh and blood
Drawing on 20 years of insider knowledge, Dickenson's sweeping exploration goes beyond the horror stories to suggest a range of strategies to bring the global biotechnology industry to heel.
Donna Dickenson, 2008
3
Virtual Migration: The Programming of Globalization
A consultant who was himself recruited through body shopping furtherexplained, ' 'Youcan say, these are like headhunters . . . What they can do is they can get you an interview for all these big companies, if they need a full-time employee they ...
A. Aneesh, 2006
4
Me Medicine vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for ...
Personalized healthcare—or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls “Me Medicine”—is radically transforming our longstanding, “one-size-fits-all” model.
Donna Dickenson, 2013
5
The Bulimia Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Stop ...
The goal for this exercise is not necessarily to buy clothes, but simply to work on accepting your body. Shopping for clothes can bring up our deepest anxieties and the most critical judgments about ourselves. If, while doing this, you cannot ...
Lisa M. Schab, 2010
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Indian Defence Review
Some Defence Research and Development Organisation laboratories in India experienced similar surprises. REVERSE BODY-SHOPPING When the ' Levitation Melting Process' came to light, the US authorities wanted to test the claim before ...
Bharat Verma (Ed)
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The Ethics of Today's Science and Technology: A ...
Ethical and Epistemological Problems of Hybridizing Living Beings: Biofacts and body shopping Nicole C. Karafyllis Summary: This essay deals with epistemological, anthropological and ethical problems in relation to the applied Life Sciences ...
Wenchao Li, Hans Poser, 2008
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Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts
Section Aexamines the earlyforay into the publicand private in body shopping, whichoccurred centuries ago in both Europe andthe United States. There are lessons to be learned from those models. Demand for cadavers, primarily for use in ...
Michele Goodwin, 2006
9
The Great Physician's Rx for Women's Health
That's why I'm a proponent of natural foods grown organically or raised sustainably, because God created these foods in a form healthy for the body. Shopping for Organic Food by Nicki Rubin Shopping in health food stores, like Whole Foods ...
Jordan Rubin, Nicki Rubin, 2007
10
Why We Shop: Emotional Rewards and Retail Strategies
Do they focus on toys for the mind or toys for the body? Shopping is about defining the self, but in the case of parents, it is about defining their children. Parents express their very deepest desires for their children through the things they buy, ...
James A. Pooler, Jim Pooler, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BODY SHOPPING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term body shopping is used in the context of the following news items.
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Technology is changing fast; invest in more than one area: BVR …
I do not think customers came for body shopping even five years back, or for that ... The result is, yes, it was body shopping at one point of time. «Economic Times, Jun 15»
2
SMBs welcome tear-down of Whitehall's least popular cloud …
However, G-Cloud 5, has been extended for six months until November to address ongoing concerns about DSF body shopping. G-Cloud 5 ... «Cloud Pro, Jun 15»
3
The Pilot And The Hijab
... institutes set up by NIIT and Aptech, two of the largest companies in this space; body shopping outfits were sending them to USA on projects. «Swarajya, May 15»
4
Era of offering software services alone is over: Ramco Systems
Things like people placement and body shopping have all gone. If somebody asks us for software service, we decline it,” he told BusinessLine ... «Hindu Business Line, Apr 15»
5
G-Cloud sales reach £559m during March
... argued that the framework was "flawed" and should be dropped entirely over fears of "body shopping", with its focus switched to G-Cloud. «Government Computing Network, Apr 15»
6
Weak rupee to aid IT sector; look for corrections to buy into IT names …
In addition, IT firms had a model which was based on body shopping, services. They were evolving a new model and a lot of money was riding ... «Economic Times, Apr 15»
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Interview: BT group FD Tony Chanmugam
And effectively, the consultancy was no more than body shopping. In other words, it was a lazy man's way of doing things. There is a time and a ... «Financial Director, Apr 15»
8
Harper review: Broad support for shake-up of trading hours
Angus Nardi, at the peak industry body Shopping Centre Council of Australia, said he welcomed the pro-consumer recommendation and was ... «The Australian, Mar 15»
9
Should digital procurement be moved out of CCS into the …
... terms) shifted to CCS who have adopted a commercial approach focused on minimising cost (body shopping based on reverse e-auctions). «Diginomica, Feb 15»
10
DXW opens "body shopping" debate on scrapping DSF
According to Metcalfe, CCS's implementation of 'body-shopping' - a process he described as extracting staff from companies to solve short-term ... «Government Computing Network, Feb 15»

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