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In-house

Meaning in business english, with examples

/ˌɪnˈhaʊs/adjectiveCommon term

In business english, in-house means: Done or employed inside a company by its own staff, rather than by an outside supplier or agency.

In Turkish: şirket içi, kurum içi, kendi bünyesinde

How it is used

Used as an adjective ('an in-house legal team', 'in-house training') or an adverb ('We do the design in-house'). The opposite is outsourced or external.

Example sentences

  1. We have an in-house legal team, so contracts are reviewed quickly.

  2. The app was built in-house, without an agency.

Common collocations

  • in-house team
  • in-house training
  • do something in-house
  • in-house lawyer
  • outsourceTo pay an outside company to do work or provide a service that a business used to do, or could do, with its own staff.
  • HRShort for human resources: the department that deals with hiring, contracts, pay, training, leave and employee relations.
  • headquartersThe main office of a company or organization, where top management works and the most important decisions are made.

This word in other fields

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