The expression homeshoring has of course been coined by analogy with offshoring, a term derived from the adjective/adverb offshore in its sense of ‘relating to a foreign country’. A less transparent lexical variant of homeshoring is the word onshoring, coined as the antonym of offshoring by use of the particle on as the opposite of off, with the projected meaning ‘at home’ as opposed to ‘in a foreign country’. Other recent coinages used in the same domain are the terms nearshoring (moving business activity to lower cost locations which are in close proximity, e.g.: from the US to Canada/Mexico), inshoring (locating business activity in cost-effective locations within the US/UK) and bestshoring (picking the best business locations according to a specific set of criteria).