body shop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.77 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A consultancy that recruits workers (generally in information technology) in order to contract out their services on a tactical short- to mid-term basis.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "Flouting employment discrimination laws, unethical body shops blatantly advertise in US publications for jobs that clearly target foreign nationals."
- "These body shops, they have a business model of spamming the H-1B lottery with lots of petitions because they don’t really care about which individuals are going to win the lottery. All that they care about is getting some number of visas so that they can then contract out those workers to third-party companies."