offshore
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˌɔfˈʃɔr/
- Meanwhile, at the tide, 60 mile per hour winds are coming in from offshore.
- offshore drilling
- offshore oil
- inshore and offshore
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- Yeah, so I worked offshore on oil rigs for three years.
- It's also a surf spot and it's kind of known to have a kind of a shark nursery offshore.
- One of them, you know, was autistic and the other, you know, others issues worked offshore.
- It could unlock vast amounts of intermittent renewable generation such as PV, such as onshore and offshore wind, onto our energy grid.
- And so they got it offshore off the West Coast, off the East Coast.
Examples
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There's a rally point offshore at Trondheim.
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Two trollers, large offshore craft, were pulling up on him from the south.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Japanese provide jobs in America, but American companies move jobs offshore.
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You see that big yacht lying offshore?
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Yeah, so I worked offshore on oil rigs for three years.
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It's one of the structures that's used in the offshore industry to produce oil.
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The intake for a public drinking water supply was approximately 200 meters offshore from the creek outlet.
Academic text (2008) -
One of the responses is to park barges offshore and pump sand from offshore areas onto the beach.
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Imagine engineering teams working at offshore or high-altitude wind farms that deliver streams of electricity to global markets.
Academic text (2011) -
The surf conditions are perfect for surfing at the offshore reef today.
Synonyms
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1.9
In the sea near the shore
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9.9
Toward or out on the sea
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4.2
Toward the sea
The direction toward the sea from land
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.6
A large structure in the sea for drilling oil or gas from under the sea floor
- Specialized
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6.3
Large platform at sea where workers get oil or gas from under the sea floor
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Etymology
Offshore comes from the parts off 'away' and shore 'land by the sea', so it literally means 'away from the shore' and is used for places or movement out to sea.