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follow the sun en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Process where a business places its support teams across several time zones, so that it is business hours in at least one zone at all times.
    • Some organisations are implementing a 'follow the sun' outsourcing strategy to facilitate 24x7 services – i.e. the customer calls are directed to whichever location is operating within normal working hours […] 2007, Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, Building a Future with BRICs: The Next Decade for Offshoring:

follow the sun en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To holiday or winter in a sunnier climate.
    • November was almost upon us; for me, there were just a couple of months to go. The sun was setting on my journey. Much warmth and light had surrounded me these past months as I followed the sun to so many countries and met so many […] 2012, Laurie J. Rutherford Pederson, The Year I Followed the Sun, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 338:

Forms

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followed the sun Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
followed the sun Tense=Past lexicographic
follows the sun Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
following the sun Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic