offshore

CEFRB2

/ɒfˈʃɔː(ɹ)/

adjective · adverb

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In plain English

01
adjective
Located in the sea away from the land.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Located in another country, especially one having beneficial tax laws or labor costs.

Examples

Dong Energy will build the world's largest offshore wind farm off the coast of Britain.
I'd like to fly for an offshore oil company.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Located in the sea away from the coast.
Moving away from the shore.

adverb

Extra meaning

Away from the shore.

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In context

an offshore oil rig
The judges said that the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling for offshore oil, and that Norway did not legally carry the responsibility for emissions stemming from oil it has exported.
If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.

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The judges said that the right to a clean environment did not bar the government from drilling for offshore oil, and that Norway did not legally carry the responsibility for emissions stemming from oil it has exported.
2020 December 22, Henrik Pryser Libell, Derrick Bryson Taylor, “Norway’s Supreme Court Makes Way for More Arctic Drilling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the origina...
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.
1884, Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Washington: United States Bureau of Fisheries, page XXVI
The Nationalists see that they have nothing to gain—in fact, a lot to lose—by hanging onto the offshores as military bases.
1958 October 11, “Signs of improvement”, in Business Week, page 36
If costs are unequally imposed by governments on their offshores, the government makes the U.S. banking industry less competitive.
1984, Richard H. Blum, Offshore Haven Banks, Trusts, and Companies, New York: Praeger, →ISBN, page 31
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.
2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 136

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Origin

adjective

From off- + shore.

Deep Dive

adjective

adverb

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The company moved its manufacturing to an blank— facility to cut costs.

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adjective

The company moved its manufacturing to an blank facility to cut costs.