insource

verb

in·source ˈin-ˌsȯrs

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

Employment guarantees are not the only reason to insource, and car makers are not the only companies doing it.—

The Economist

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Brands following the performance model tend to insource subject matter experts to create the strategy and tightly manage agency partner execution. —

Molly Baker, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023 The two other big clients had started to insource their printing needs. —

Geri Stengel, Forbes, 22 June 2022 What tends to happen is that big pharma companies insource innovation from leaner biotechs which have a thirst for risky experimental science but lack the wide-scale manufacturing and sales capacity of the industry titans. —

Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 8 June 2020 Going forward, the company built on outsourcing needs to insource a bunch of key disciplines and capabilities. —

Daniel Gross, Slate Magazine, 12 June 2017