offshore
See also: off-shore
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EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
offshore (not comparable)
- Moving away from the shore.
- Located in the sea away from the coast.
- an offshore oil rig
- Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws.
TranslationsEdit
moving away from the shore
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located in the sea away from the coast
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located in another country
AdverbEdit
offshore (not comparable)
- Away from the shore.
- At some distance from the shore.
TranslationsEdit
away from the shore
at some distance from the shore
VerbEdit
offshore (third-person singular simple present offshores, present participle offshoring, simple past and past participle offshored)
- To use foreign labor to substitute for local labor.
TranslationsEdit
to use foreign labor to substitute for local labor
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NounEdit
offshore (plural offshores)
- An area or or portion of sea away from the shore.
- 1884, Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Washington: United States Bureau of Fisheries, page XXVI:
- This problem, so far as the offshores of the United States is concerned, is one that is eminently worthy of the attention of the United States Fish Commission and the support of Congress in its attempt to solve it.
- An island, outcrop, or other land away from shore.
- 1958 October 11, “Signs of improvement”, in Business Week, page 36:
- The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
- Something or someone in, from, or associated with another country.
- 1984, Richard H. Blum, Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, New York: Praeger, →ISBN, page 31:
- If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
- 2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock and Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 136:
- Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.
See alsoEdit
FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English offshore.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
offshore (plural offshores)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English
AdjectiveEdit
offshore (indeclinable)
ReferencesEdit
- “offshore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English
AdjectiveEdit
offshore (indeclinable)
ReferencesEdit
- “offshore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.