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offshore
/ˈɔfˈʃɔɹ/
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What does offshore mean?
adjective
- Moving away from the shore.
- Located in the sea away from the coast.
- Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.
More meanings (6)
adverb
- Away from the shore.
- At some distance from the shore.
verb
- To move industrial production from one region to another or from one country to another, in order to seek lower business costs, such as labor.
noun
- An area of or portion of sea away from the shore.
- An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
- Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɔfˈʃɔɹ/
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Finding myself, shortly after, close in with the land, I tacked again offshore, but without much altering the bearings of the danger.
Then some offshore wind of weariness or prejudice bears me away again.
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Eritrea has inherited the entire coastline of Ethiopia and has long-term prospects for revenues from the development of offshore oil, offshore fishing and tourism.
We could see the ship lying about a mile offshore, and walked down to get our mails and anything else she had brought along for us.
At daybreak, as far as we could judge, we were about twenty miles offshore to the northward and westward of Little Bonny, in the track of any vessel bound for the West Indies.