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body shopping en · NOUN
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(qualifier:labour, uncountable) The practice of consultancy firms recruiting workers (generally in the information technology sector) to contract their services out on a tactical short- to medium-term basis.
In body shopping, the client hires a consultant to do a task that he or she cannot do because of time or resource pressures. […] A client resorts to body shopping when deadlines are tight or there are not enough people to undertake the task in the time available; […].
2016, Raj Aseervatham, You're the Boss: Growing and Selling a Successful Consulting Firm, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 11:
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