“…Unfortunately, the terminology in this area has not yet been standardised. Although “backshoring” is the term most commonly used to describe the relocation to the national territory of production activities previously outsourced abroad, terms such as “return relocation” (Jungnickel, ), “in‐shoring” (Dholakia, Kompella, & Hales, ; Liao, ; Skipper, ), “reshoring” (Gray et al, ), and back‐reshoring (Fratocchi, Di Mauro, Barbieri, Nassimbeni, & Zanoni, ) also exist, although the last one is broader. It is worth noting that “nearshoring” is also used when referring to offshoring to geographically close countries (i.e., considering this relocation from the point of view of the sending country), as in Eurofound ().…”