What's the difference between outsource and turnkey?

Outsource


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
  • (2) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
  • (3) It is difficult to accept lectures on outsourcing from the party that introduced the North American Free Trade Agreement – an outsourcers' charter liberalising trade between the US, Mexico and Canada.
  • (4) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
  • (5) Switzerland "outsourced" more than half of its carbon dioxide emissions, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • (6) Fairfax plans to outsource most photographic jobs to Getty Images.
  • (7) "The truth is many outsourcing contracts ensure costs remain high."
  • (8) We are particularly concerned about what will happen to entitlements, to annual leave and rest breaks, to parental leave, to rights for agency, part-time and temporary workers and to protections if your job is outsourced or your company sold off.
  • (9) Grayling made clear that he was making a virtue out of the inability of two of the biggest outsourcing companies in criminal justice to bid for £450m of contracts covering the probation service in England and Wales, which are to be put up for competition later this year.
  • (10) However, it is wrong to suppose that outsourcing only erodes wages at the bottom.
  • (11) Profit in outsourcing comes from cutting pay and squeezing the workforce.
  • (12) The first questioner asked about the outsourcing of jobs offshore and asked the leaders how they would attract companies to Australia to provide jobs in Australia.
  • (13) Since their arrival on British soil, the UK government has denied responsibility for the group and sought to outsource its obligations under international law to Cyprus,” she said.
  • (14) The NHS is subject to many kinds of change, most offered in the name of greater patient choice and control – hence the shift to outsourcing and privatisation.
  • (15) A regular Bitcoin user may not be outsourcing their trust to the government or a central bank when they use the currency, but they're not exactly outsourcing their trust to people just like them, either.
  • (16) Blair pressed privatisation, deregulation, outsourcing, PFI, demutualisation and more in fealty to the market and the global corporate world.
  • (17) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.
  • (18) Yet despite the evidence that outsourcing and privatisation, far from improving efficiency, actually does the opposite, the coalition still seems hell-bent on reducing the public sector's role.
  • (19) What the government has created in its place – rocketing number of disability assessments, outsourced to multimillion-pound private contracts mixed with failing back-to-work programmes – is the definition of economic stupidity.
  • (20) It said while cash in the business had recently been focused on debt reduction and increasing the dividend, it was now a good time to invest more in US expansion, where the market is still very fragmented and more local authorities are seeking to outsource school bus contracts.

Turnkey


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.
  • (n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data from magnetic tapes written on a turnkey laboratory system are used as the basis for generating the archival tapes.
  • (2) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
  • (3) Although many hospitals subscribe to abstract or turnkey systems, others are leaving shared services to set up their own in-house systems.
  • (4) SMLMs are delivered as turnkey systems consisting of the microfiche collection, a reader-printer, four fiche readers, necessary furniture, and promotional and training materials.
  • (5) Major software advances have taken place through the availability of applications packages that are operated with menu-driven or point-and-click user interfaces, data flow languages, or complete turnkey applications.
  • (6) The third approach is to purchase a turnkey system, with some modifications provided by the manufacturer for a specific clinical application.
  • (7) It provides an effective shell for custom software prototyping and turnkey applications.
  • (8) Right now it’s designed for peak saving, so we charge them at night when the grid is stable and electricity is cheap and discharge during the day.” John Jung, CEO of Greensmith, a supplier of turnkey energy storage systems, says this application is the most common in energy storage, with the majority of large-scale customers being more interested in reliability and cost reductions.
  • (9) I have found that with the hardware and software described in this paper, I was able to obtain, in a much more cost-effective manner, as useful preoperative information for my practice as I could obtain with more expensive "turnkey" (only one use) computerized imaging systems.
  • (10) Hidden away in offices of various government departments, intelligence agencies, police forces and armed forces are dozens and dozens of people who are very much upset by what our societies are turning into: at the very least, turnkey tyrannies.
  • (11) Although turnkey systems may offer significant economies for single well-defined and repetitive tasks, they may not permit sufficient flexibility to achieve the diverse aims required by many research programs.

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