Meaning of body shop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A workshop in which damage to the bodywork of cars is repaired.
   US
2. 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

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Examples

“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.”

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